Iris Murdoch Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

  Iris Murdoch

  Jealousy, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

• Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

  Iris Murdoch

  Mean, Eye, Convince Us

• In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

  Iris Murdoch

  Marriage, Selfish, Giving

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.13, Penguin

• Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Giving, Shapes

  Iris Murdoch (1987). “The Unicorn”, p.80, Penguin

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