What did Iris Murdoch mean by: We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ All our failures are ultimately failures in love. Author, September 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Failure, Love, Relationships, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Food, Reading, Thinking, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Creativity, Inspiration, Patience, 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
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
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) […] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Art, Concealment, Words, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don’t expect. Author, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Direction, Surprises, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues. Author, June 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Love, Secret, Virtue, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
