Iris Murdoch Quotes on Love
Iris Murdoch was a 20th-century British philosopher and novelist, the author of 26 novels and several volumes of moral philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Iris Murdoch on the topic of love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Iris Murdoch:
“Love is the perception of individuals.”
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“We can only learn to love by loving.”
The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219. -
“Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
The Black Prince (1973); 2003, p. 10. -
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”
The Sublime and the Good", in the Chicago Review , Vol. 13 Issue 3 (Autumn 1959) p. 51.