Terry Eagleton Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Terry Eagleton quotes and sayings page 4 (critic). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 57 we have.
“The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.”
“What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.”
“Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.”
“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?”
“I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.”
“The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.”
“Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.”
“It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.”
“The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.”
“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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