What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ A middling talent makes for a more serene life. Author, October 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Contentment, Moderation, Talent, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Ambivalence, Isolation, Passion, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Freedom, Morals, Politics, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ All our failures are ultimately failures in love. Author, September 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Failure, Love, Relationships, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Love can’t always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Acceptance, Emotions, Love, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Authenticity, Humility, Self-awareness, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Humor, Perspective, Responsibility, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ We can only learn to love by loving. Author, July 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Learning, Love, Relationships, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Picasso said that everything is a miracle, that it’s a miracle that we don’t dissolve in our baths. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of reason, or give up existence. Friedrich Engels Philosopher, social scientist, and political theorist · Germany
Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. Read explanation Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. Read explanation Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
