Iris Murdoch Quotes

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Love is the part of us that is real.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

Love is more just than justice.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Only love can bring us peace. And the experience of love is a choice we make, a mental decision to see love as the only real purpose and value in any situation.

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

As someone who is obsessed with fashion, I personally own non-vegan materials and am very open about that. I don't think it's right to pretend to be someone you're not to get sales. People know me on a real level because of how open I am in my videos. It was a simple choice: I didn't want to exclude anyone, that wasn't fair. I wanted EVERY customer to be able to wear my art. And it's morally right. End of story.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.