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Iris Murdoch

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Anything that consoles is fake.


— Iris Murdoch


#consoles #fake

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


— Iris Murdoch


#end #good #in the end #just #matter

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


— Iris Murdoch


#get #got #had #intellectual #into

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.


— Iris Murdoch


#human #human affairs #serious #seriously #taken

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


— Iris Murdoch


#being #daresay #holy #i #made

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


— Iris Murdoch


#pace #philosophy #snail #you

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


#generic #like #moral #moralistic #spectrum

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.


— Iris Murdoch


#calls #entirely #even #frivolous #love

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.


— Iris Murdoch


#evil #letting #lies #off #only

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.


— Iris Murdoch


#comfort #equivalent #general #notion #particular






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In a BBC Radio 4 discussion of Murdoch and her work in 2009 Wilson assented to Bidisha's view that Murdoch's philosophical output consisted of nothing but "GCSE-style" essays on Plato and even suggested that Murdoch's later philosophical work "Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals" was a mistake that precipitated Murdoch into Alzheimers. Wilson's record that Murdoch regretted the sympathetic portrayal of the Irish nationalist cause Iris Murdoch had given earlier in The Red and the Green and a competing defence of the book at Caen in 1978. N.

Her first publiIris Murdochd novel Under the Net was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987 Iris Murdoch was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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