What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ A death is the most terrible of facts. Author, August 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Fear, Grief, Mortality, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Companionship, Similarity, Virtue, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
One doesn’t have to get anywhere in a marriage. It’s not a public conveyance. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Commitment, Intimacy, Love, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. Author, October 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Action, Consequences, Procrastination, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Every artist is an unhappy lover. Author, October 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Creativity, Emotion, Passion, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Emotions, Literature, Technique, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
One should go easy on smashing other people’s lies. Better to concentrate on one’s own. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Humility, Integrity, Self-improvement, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Communication, Connection, Marriage, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives. Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. Read explanation Ludwig von Mises Economist · Austria
