What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someoneβs company you love them.
Iris MurdochRead
There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
Interpretation
This quote highlights a profound distinction between people based on their ability to find peace and rest.
Iris Murdoch's quote addresses a significant divide among people, focusing on the fundamental human experience of sleep. Those who are able to sleep peacefully experience a separation from those who struggle with insomnia or restlessness, suggesting that this division reveals deeper psychological and existential issues that can profoundly affect one's quality of life and relationships with others.
In practice
In a mental health seminar, when discussing the impacts of sleep on well-being.
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someoneβs company you love them.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no. That's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?
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