Logo
Quote by Terry Eagleton
Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christia

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

Other quotes by Terry Eagleton

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open. – Terry Eagleton

Category:
Future
Author
Terry Eagleton
Read Quote

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. – Terry Eagleton

Category:
Age
Author
Terry Eagleton
Read Quote

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

Category:
Home
Author
Terry Eagleton
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Faith
category

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. – Francis Quarles

Category:
Faith

Once youre successful with a certain kind of music, its hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful. – Roberta Flack

Category:
Faith

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
Faith

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary. – Edward Burns

Category:
Faith

Random Quotes

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. – Walt Whitman

Category:
Thinking of You

When youre a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mothers assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore. – Louis C. K.

Category:
Marriage

The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. – Author Unknown

Category:
Vacations

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down. – Zac Efron

Category:
Humor