The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
“The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.”
— Terry Eagleton · Bury
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The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
“The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.”
— Terry Eagleton · Bury
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“The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.”
“It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.”
“For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.”
“Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.”
“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.”
“We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and ironic self-doubt; culture means a form of life that is customary, collective, passionate, spontaneous, unreflective and irrational.”
“At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.”
“There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.”
“Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.”
“I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manchester and parts of Bury. The satisfaction lasted for half an hour before I saw into the nothingness of things.”
“For me, I just got to focus on my job. I just got to find ways to stop the puck and keep our guys in it until we bury the puck.”
“We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.”