241 Quotes by Terry Eagleton

Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.

I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

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.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.