“Even those novelists most commonly deemed “philosophical” have sometimes answered with an emphatic no. Iris Murdoch, the longtime Oxford philosopher and author… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I rather liked him.I asked him to come and see us.' ‘Oh Christ !’ ‘But, Bradley, you mustn’t reject people,you musn't just… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
