Terry Eagleton Quotes
-
If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.
-
Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
-
It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.
-
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
-
All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.
-
History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
-
The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
-
Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
-
Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.
-
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.