Iris Murdoch Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Struggle, Literature

  "The Philosopher's Pupil".

• The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

  Iris Murdoch

  Essentials, Culture, Fundamentals

  Iris Murdoch (1967). “The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts”, p.33, Psychology Press

• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  Iris Murdoch

  Technique, Literature, Emotion

• But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

  Iris Murdoch

  Death, Art, Imagination

  Iris Murdoch (1990). “The Message to the Planet”, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books

• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Time, Fate, Literature

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  Iris Murdoch

  People, Literature, Wavelength

  Iris Murdoch (2010). “The Message To The Planet”, p.536, Random House

• I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

  Iris Murdoch

  Nice, Women, Reality

  The Red and the Green ch. 2 (1965)

• He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

  Iris Murdoch

  Intellectual, Literature, Sociologists

• I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

  Iris Murdoch

  Literature, Mary

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  Iris Murdoch

  Survival, Comfort, Literature

  "The Message to the Planet". Book by Iris Murdoch, p. 532, 1989.

• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Moving, Pace

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.500, Penguin

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Change, Fall

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr

• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  Iris Murdoch

  Taken, Literature, Serious

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr

• A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

  Iris Murdoch

  Rain, Criticism, Important

  The Times, July 6, 1989.

• Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.

  Iris Murdoch

  Literature, Christ

  Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.88, Penguin

• Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

  Iris Murdoch

  Literature, Matter, Goodness

  Iris Murdoch (1978). “The Nice and the Good”, p.103, Penguin

• Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

  Iris Murdoch

  Literature, Moral, Truth Is

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