Iris Murdoch Quotes

Iris Murdoch
Irish Author
Born: Jul 15, 1919
Died: Feb 8, 1999
Life Love Love Is Matter People Think
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch
Life Truth Great Reality World Illusion Live Find Task Fantasy Fantasy World
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Iris Murdoch
Happiness Matter Being Busy Busy Everyday Unconcerned Self Most Mode Being Ordinary Lively Consciousness
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Iris Murdoch
Love You Eyes Love Is World Out See New New Eyes Falling Very Short While Enlightening
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. Iris Murdoch
Equality Down Everyone Cry
Only lies and evil come from letting people off. Iris Murdoch
People Evil Lies Only Come Off Letting
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. Iris Murdoch
Love Change Marriage People Priesthood Other Unlike Recognized Must Some Without Go Falling Falling In Love Years Often Which Realizing Hardly Start
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch
Love Moving On Love Is Matter Out Someone Charming How Falling Chiefly Forgetting
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. Iris Murdoch
Love Love Is Worth Entirely No Love Calls Without Frivolous Even Base
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. Iris Murdoch
Writing Luck Married Oneself Never Like Until Amazed Commit Getting Getting Married Should
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Iris Murdoch
Good Matter Temperament End Just Being In The End
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. Iris Murdoch
You Woman Important Nice Think Everyone Says Take Like Irish Same Being Place Second Second Place
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. Iris Murdoch
You Philosophy Snail Pace Moving
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. Iris Murdoch
Needs Man Women Men Every Thrilling Quiet Man Needs Every Man Two
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. Iris Murdoch
People Space Other Wavelength Distant Ours Some Pick Perhaps Hear Continuous Up Scream Planets
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. Iris Murdoch
Truth Truth Is Moral Brown Moralistic Generic Like Well Spectrum
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. Iris Murdoch
Seriously Taken Affairs Human Human Affairs Serious
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Iris Murdoch
Relationship Supplied Comfort Substitute Utterly
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. Iris Murdoch
Life Out Never Had He Got Intellectual Get Muddle Early
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. Iris Murdoch
Emotions Could Sort Disciplined Said Literature Certain Technique

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