Description Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Description Inspirational Love World
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world. — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world. — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
We believe in defending everyone's lives. We believe in defending everyone's property. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the most part,… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings. — Luis Alberto Urrea 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
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all. — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they… — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
