Iris Murdoch Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Philosophy, Needs

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.337, Penguin

• 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

• We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Views, Political

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.337, Penguin

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Food, Science

  Iris Murdoch (1989). “The Book and the Brotherhood”, p.32, Penguin

• Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Understanding, Kind

  Iris Murdoch (1994). “Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals”, p.209, Penguin

• I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

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