Iris Murdoch Quotes

Irish - Author | July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999

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

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LifeLiveTruthGreatWorldReality

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

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WisdomShoesSayingDoingOutPair

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

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LoveLove IsDifficultRealThan

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

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MovingPhilosophyYouPaceSnail

We can only learn to love by loving.

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LoveLearnLovingOnlyTo Love

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

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PassionBetterConfusedMoralThan

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

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HappinessBusySelfMatterEveryday

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

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MenEatingThinkThinkingPhilosophy

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

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WomenMenManQuietTwoNeeds

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.

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LoveChangeMarriagePeopleStart

Anything that consoles is fake.

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FakeAnythingConsoles

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

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