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Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
- Terry Eagleton
#Humanities
#Ideas
#Law
#Men
#Real
God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
- Terry Eagleton
#God
#Shame
#Strong
#Weakest
#World
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!
- Terry Eagleton
#Come
#Line
#Long
#Performer
#Sense
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.
- Terry Eagleton
#Business
#Humanities
#Learning
#Poor
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
#Character
#Home
#Literature
#Talk
#Work
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
- Terry Eagleton
#Avoiding
#Duck
#Grow
#Poetry
#Will
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.
- Terry Eagleton
#End
#Life
#Power
#Responsibility
#Wealth
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.
- Terry Eagleton
#Become
#Betrayal
#He
#Sense
#Sick
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
- Terry Eagleton
#Age
#Back
#Poetry
#Political
#Private
A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.
- Terry Eagleton
#Believe
#Culture
#Life
#Project
#Way
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
#Believe
#Children
#Faith
#Me
#School
Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
- Terry Eagleton
#Deconstruction
#Insists
#Truth Is
#Truth
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
- Terry Eagleton
#Bad
#Nostalgia
#Sometimes
#Too Much
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
#Culture
#Diversity
#Life
#Power
#Unity
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.
- Terry Eagleton
#Joke
#Other
#Postmodernism
#Sick
#Things
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
- Terry Eagleton
#Feel
#Political
#Sometimes
#Sovereignty
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
- Terry Eagleton
#Being Human
#Being
#Goodness
#Human
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.
- Terry Eagleton
#Being Human
#Good
#Human Being
#Practice
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.
- Terry Eagleton
#Busy
#Power
#Speak
#Truth
#Trying
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.
- Terry Eagleton
#History
#Lie
#Sympathy
#Values
#Vision
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