Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relation...
Iris Murdoch Life
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch
We can only learn to love by loving.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. Iris Murdoch
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Iris Murdoch
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. Iris Murdoch
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. Iris Murdoch
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. Iris Murdoch
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Anything that consoles is fake. Iris Murdoch
Anything that consoles is fake.
