What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Love, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The most interesting things are always happening behind one. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 24, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Behinds, Happenings, Interesting, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Assertive, Self, Singing, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The very madness of the scheme protects it. Feraz Zeid, August 25, 2023December 24, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Madness, Protect, Schemes, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Love, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Happiness, Marriage, Relationships, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Love can’t always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Darkness, Love, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ being homosexual doesn’t determine a man’s whole character any more than being heterosexual does. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Character, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The laws of art are eternal and don’t change at all, as the moral laws don’t change in human beings. - Max Beckmann Painter · Germany
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist. - William Gurnall Clergyman · England
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France