Iris Murdoch Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Iris Murdoch quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased author born on Jul 15, 1919). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 36 we have for her.
“All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”
“Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.”
“Anything that consoles is fake.”
“Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.”
“In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.”
“The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.”
“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”
“Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.”
“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”
“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 some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.”
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