"The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster."

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Source : Terry Eagleton (2008). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.174, U of Minnesota Press

Terry Eagleton

#Truth Is Quotes #Ideology Quotes #Humans Quotes

“For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.”
“I never listened to country music growing up.”
“Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.”
“My career in racing started at a very young age in California.”
“Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.”
“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.”
“Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!”
“Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde.”

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