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Iris Murdoch Quotes: "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 Quotes: "A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia."

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.




Iris Murdoch Quotes: "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 Quotes: "We can only learn to love by loving."

We can only learn to love by loving.




Iris Murdoch Quotes: "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 Quotes: "He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port."

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.




Iris Murdoch Quotes: "The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart."

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture."

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "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 Quotes: "Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real."

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.




Iris Murdoch Quotes: "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 Quotes: "There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present."

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love."

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.



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

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



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all."

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals."

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea."

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations."

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "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 Quotes: "Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues."

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries."

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here."

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

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 Quotes: "The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man."

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "The cry of equality pulls everyone down."

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge."

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "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 Quotes: "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 Quotes: "The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself."

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Most real relationships are involuntary."

Most real relationships are involuntary.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own."

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth."

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central."

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere."

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Anything that consoles is fake."

Anything that consoles is fake.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "A middling talent makes for a more serene life."

A middling talent makes for a more serene life.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession."

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "All our failures are ultimately failures in love."

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning."

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them."

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped."

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge."

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.



Iris Murdoch Quotes: "Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder."

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.