Terry Eagleton Quotes
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
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I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.
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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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History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.
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It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?
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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
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I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.
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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.