241 Quotes by Terry Eagleton

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.