Murdoch

Famous quotes containing the word murdoch:

“You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

“We can only learn to love by loving.”
—Iris Murdoch (20th century)

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one’s ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)