Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“We need to return from the self-centred concept of sincerity to the other-centred concept of truth. We are not isolated free choosers,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that? — 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
