Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real
Iris MurdochThe absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris MurdochWe need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.
Iris MurdochEvery persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower...
Iris MurdochTag: fear
youth is a marvelous garment
Iris MurdochTime can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
Iris MurdochThose who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
Iris MurdochHegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
Iris MurdochTag: humor
Dora was stunned by this information. She stopped. 'Do you mean' she said, 'that they're completely imprisoned in there?'
Mrs. Marks laughed. 'Not imprisoned, my dear,' she said. 'They are there of their own free will. This is not a prison. It is on the contrary a place which it is very hard to get into, and only the strongest achieve it. Like Mary in the parable, they have chosen the better part.
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.
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