Iris Murdoch

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

— Iris Murdoch

#being busy #busy #consciousness #everyday #happiness

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

#another #body #human #human body #indifference

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

— Iris Murdoch

#doing #many #out #pair #saying

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

#about #flowers #joy #mad #must

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#art #cunning #face #final #gods

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#i see #mary #mary tyler moore #moore #myself

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

— Iris Murdoch

#certain #could #disciplined #emotions #literature

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#get #marriage #public

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#confused #indifference #misguided #moral #passion

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

— Iris Murdoch

#digest #eating #empty #ignorant #men