Author: Iris Murdoch

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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

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

- 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

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

- Iris Murdoch

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

- Iris Murdoch

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

- Iris Murdoch

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

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

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

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