What did Iris Murdoch mean by: How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Communication, Sound, Time, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ A death is the most terrible of facts. Author, August 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Fear, Grief, Mortality, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Avoidance, Creativity, Religion, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Defense, Description, Generalization, 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
There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Confinement, Connection, Isolation, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good. Author, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Goodness, Paradox, Triumph, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ To be a complete victim may be another source of power. Author, September 29, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Identity, Power, Victimhood, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
