Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBEwas an Irish novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her books include The Bell, A Severed Head, The Red and the Green,...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 July 1919
CountryIreland
Iris Murdoch quotes about
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
Anything that consoles is fake.
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Most real relationships are involuntary.
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.