“Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Vanity
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“We can only learn to love by loving.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To bedamned is for one’s ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Virtue
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“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Relationship
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“We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Present
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“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Philosophy
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“In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Philosophy
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“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humankind
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“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”
Iris Murdoch
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Goodness
