What did Iris Murdoch mean by: There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation. Author, June 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Civilization, Conflict, Truth, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child’s despair. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Childhood, Despair, Misery, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The most interesting things are always happening behind one. Author, September 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Discovery, Intrigue, Mystery, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Another person’s illness is often harder to bear than one’s own. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Comparison, Compassion, Empathy, 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
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
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Pace, Philosophy, Progress, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Author, October 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Civilization, Efficiency, Transportation, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good. Jean Paul Writer · Germany
But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me. Jean Reno
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity. Read explanation Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
