Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE was a British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

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Anything that consoles is fake.

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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

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

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

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