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Human Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
- Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
- Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
- Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.
- It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a…
- The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules…
- The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
- 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…
- Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be…
- 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…
- Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful…
- Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
- Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is…
- Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold…
- For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the…
- There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin