Iris Murdoch Quotes About Literature
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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.
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
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Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
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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.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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