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All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.
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It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.
Terry Eagleton
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Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.
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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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If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.
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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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Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.
Terry Eagleton
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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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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?
Terry Eagleton