Author: Iris Murdoch

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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

- Iris Murdoch

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

- Iris Murdoch

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

- Iris Murdoch

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

- Iris Murdoch

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

- Iris Murdoch

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

- Iris Murdoch

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

- Iris Murdoch

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

- Iris Murdoch

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

- Iris Murdoch

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