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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Iris Murdoch

Men

Thinking

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Iris Murdoch

Luck

Writing

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Iris Murdoch

Future

Present

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Love

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Iris Murdoch

Comfort

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Iris Murdoch

Comfort

Will

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Iris Murdoch

Truth

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

Emotions

Literature

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Iris Murdoch

People

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Iris Murdoch

Indifference

Passion

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.