I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. - Iris Murdoch
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
- Iris Murdoch
We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch
We can only learn to love by loving.
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present. - Iris Murdoch
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
Language is a machine for making falsehoods. - Iris Murdoch
Language is a machine for making falsehoods.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Iris Murdoch
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine. - Iris Murdoch
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better. - Iris Murdoch
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
Real misery cuts off all paths to itself. - Iris Murdoch
Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. - Iris Murdoch
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
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