Terry Eagleton Quotes
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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.
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It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
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The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
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If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
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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.
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All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.