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Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.
Terry Eagleton
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Terry Eagleton
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 22
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It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.
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Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
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The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.
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The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you have some explaining to do. The stark signifier of the human condition is one who spoke up for love and justice and was done to death for his pains. The traumatic truth of human history is a mutilated body.
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
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There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.
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