Iris Murdoch Quotes on Mind
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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974) p. 37. -
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970); 2001, p. 170. -
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.”
The Red and the Green (1965), ch. 2, p. 30. -
“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 22.