“Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”
— Terry Eagleton
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For the liberal state to accommodate a
“For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.”
— Terry Eagleton
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Category: positive
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With fiction, you can talk about plot,
“With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.”
— Terry Eagleton
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Category: home
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If history, philosophy and so on vanish
“If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.”
— Terry Eagleton
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Category: history
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Most poetry in the modern age has
“Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.”
— Terry Eagleton
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The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the
“The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.”
— Terry Eagleton
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The British are supposed to be particularly
“The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.”
— Terry Eagleton
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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty
“Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.”
— Terry Eagleton
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Category: history
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The conversion of agnostic High Tories to
“The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.”
— Terry Eagleton
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Dawkins considers that all faith is blind
“Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.”
— Terry Eagleton
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Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl
“Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.”
— Terry Eagleton
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Category: imagination
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