Iris Murdoch Quotes - Page 3

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• Anything that consoles is fake.

  Iris Murdoch

  Fake People, Fake, Console

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• Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.

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  Literature, Christ

  Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.88, Penguin

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• Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

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  Reading, Thinking, Important

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.30, Penguin

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• Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

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  Philosophy, Understanding, Kind

  Iris Murdoch (1994). “Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals”, p.209, Penguin

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• Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

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  Sound, Humans, Relate

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea”

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• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

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  Philosophy, Food, Science

  Iris Murdoch (1989). “The Book and the Brotherhood”, p.32, Penguin

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• The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

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  Would Be, Best Things

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.36, Penguin

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• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

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  Art, Soul, Finals

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.491, Penguin

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• Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

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  Love, Sex, Erotic

  Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.195, Penguin

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• Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

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  Hate, Hatred, Vision

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• Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

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  Art, Light, Cozy

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea”

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• A middling talent makes for a more serene life.

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  Talent, Serene

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• All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

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  Art, Struggle, Literature

  "The Philosopher's Pupil".

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• Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

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  Bears, Illness, Harder

  Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.70, Penguin

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• Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

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  Moving, Writing, Novelty

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch”, p.134, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• Real worship involves waiting.

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  Faith, Real, Waiting

  Iris Murdoch (1969). “Bruno's dream”, Viking Adult

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• We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

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  Love, Philosophy, Needs

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.337, Penguin

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• We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

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  Judging, World, Fantasy

  Iris Murdoch (2002). “Nuns and Soldiers”, p.490, Penguin

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• The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.

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  Children, Situation, Entry

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• The very madness of the scheme protects it.

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  Madness, Schemes, Protect

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• Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

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  Marriage, Trams

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• All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

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  Dream, Artist, Sea

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “A Severed Head, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea”

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• Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

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  Love, Darkness, Looks

  Iris Murdoch (1978). “The Nice and the Good”, p.172, Penguin

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• The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

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  Writing, Letters

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “The Philosopher's Pupil”, p.422, Random House

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• Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

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  Lying, Responsibility, People

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.52, Penguin

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