Author: Iris Murdoch

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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

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

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

- 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

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

- 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

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

- Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving.

We can only learn to love by loving.

- 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

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