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We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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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.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.
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to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
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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.
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Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
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All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
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We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
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It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
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What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
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