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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 most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations. Iris Murdoch
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food..."
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly..."
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather..."
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Iris Murdoch
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed. Iris Murdoch
To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea. Iris Murdoch
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end."
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you..."
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think..."
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! Iris Murdoch
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage. Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch quote: "I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says..."
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. Iris Murdoch
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing. Iris Murdoch
Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that eing the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy. Iris Murdoch

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