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Other Quotes by Iris Murdoch
- The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in…
- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
- The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into…
- One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
- 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 of…
- The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
- We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle