Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.
Iris MurdochTags: happiness education knowledge
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris MurdochThe most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.
Tags: reading
To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures, poems, melodies, places lost too: Dante, Avignon, a song of Shakespeare's, the Cornish sea.
Iris MurdochEvery artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
Iris MurdochThere is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
Iris MurdochCoffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.
Iris MurdochTags: coffee
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
Iris Murdoch¿Cuál es la diferencia que existe entre yo y estas pequeñas y humildes criaturas? La araña teje su tela, no puede hacer otra cosa. Yo tejo mi conciencia, esta charlatana compulsiva, esta voz vaga y errabunda que pronto enmudecerá. Pero todo es un sueño. La realidad es demasiado dura.
Iris MurdochTags: español sueños el-sueño-de-bruno vida-y-muerte bruno-s-dream
Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duración temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente.
Iris MurdochTags: español el-sueño-de-bruno eternidad iris-murdoch vida-y-muerte
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