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Iris Murdoch Quotes

Iris Murdoch quotes

Irish Author, Writer, Philosopher July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999

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The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch. Iris Murdoch
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while..."
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Iris Murdoch
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "We can only learn to love by loving."
We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how..."
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion...."
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "Love is the difficult realization that something other than..."
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous..."
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats."
One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats. Iris Murdoch
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. Iris Murdoch
Toby had received, though not yet digested, one of the earliest lessons of adult life: that one is never secure. At any moment one can be removed from a state of guileless serenity and plunged into its opposite, without any intermediate condition, so high about us do the waters rise of our own and other people's imperfection. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great..."
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch
I hate solitude, but i'm afraid if intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself. Iris Murdoch

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