It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown. Iris Murdoch More Quotes by Iris Murdoch More Quotes From Iris Murdoch ... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that? Iris Murdoch caught telling-the-truth We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling. Iris Murdoch disorder We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason. Iris Murdoch light self secret being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. Iris Murdoch doe character men emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage. Iris Murdoch emotion personality world Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. Iris Murdoch confused moral passion Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men. Iris Murdoch race feelings men Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth, pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms, simple and calm and blessed, which we saw once in a pure, clear light, being pure ourselves. Iris Murdoch simple blessed memories I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to Iris Murdoch philosophy ideas thinking ... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people. Iris Murdoch spiritual perfect people In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. Iris Murdoch pace philosophy moving for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter. Iris Murdoch space dream opportunity Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing. Iris Murdoch assertive singing self Real misery cuts off all paths to itself. Iris Murdoch cutting real suffering Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge. Iris Murdoch learning curiosity secret Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best. Iris Murdoch second-best sound sleep There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations. Iris Murdoch mysterious expectations sex On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin? Iris Murdoch ends doe people 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-is moral literature Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own. Iris Murdoch harder illness bears
