#at

Plato was a bore. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#plato

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #least #narrative #point #priority

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#change #got #i #make #ones

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

— Iris Murdoch

#love #love is #oneself #other #real

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

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

— Iris Murdoch

#certain #could #disciplined #emotions #literature

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

— Iris Murdoch

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

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

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

— Iris Murdoch

#relationship #substitute #supplied #taken-for-granted #utterly

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

— Iris Murdoch

#fantasy world #find #great #illusion #life