What did Iris Murdoch mean by: The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Art, Struggle, Virtue, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Authenticity, Humility, Self-awareness, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Intuition, Philosophy, Understanding, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Fantasy, Illusion, Reality, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
… a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Consequences, Ethics, Supernatural, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Ambivalence, Isolation, Passion, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Food, Truth, Writing, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ To be a complete victim may be another source of power. Feraz Zeid, September 29, 2023December 25, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Identity, Power, Victimhood, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. - Lincoln Steffens Journalist · USA
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual. - Jeff Koons Artist · USA
To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization. - Jeremy Seabrook
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. - Jerome Frank Lawyer · USA
Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism. - William Kristol
