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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

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

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

Why would I spend $5 billion for something in order to wreck it? ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#i #order #something #spend #why