Civilisation Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilisation Culture Truth
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth. — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
In the world of thought, there is no truth. Everything is relative, contextual, subject to more and more analysis. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life. — John Howard Copy Share Image
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti 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
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
If the truth be told, we are a society that is dripping in racism. This is not in the least surprising. For the best… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
