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Iris Murdoch est une écrivain britannique.

✵ 15. juillet 1919 – 8. février 1999   •   Autres noms آیریس مرداک
Iris Murdoch: 61   citations 0   J'aime

Iris Murdoch: Citations en anglais

“youth is a marvelous garment”

Iris Murdoch livre The Bell

Source: The Bell

“The chief requirement of the good life… is to live without any image of oneself.”

Iris Murdoch livre The Bell

The Bell (1958), ch. 9; 2001, p. 119.

“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”

Iris Murdoch livre The Message to the Planet

The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 43.

“Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.”

Iris Murdoch livre The Good Apprentice

The Good Apprentice (1985), p. 247.

“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”

Iris Murdoch livre The Black Prince

The Black Prince (1973); 2003, p. 181.

“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”

Iris Murdoch livre The Nice and the Good

The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 14, p. 127.
Murdoch attributed this opinion to her character Kate Gray. It was not her own.

“The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.”

Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 138

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

Iris Murdoch livre A Severed Head

A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 181.

“We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.”

Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 148 (the concluding sentence of the book)

“Only lies and evil come from letting people off.”

Iris Murdoch livre A Severed Head

A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 61.

“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”

"Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art", Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986).

“I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.”

Not Iris Murdoch, but the actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. See George Mair Rosie O'Donnell: Her True Story (1997) p. 81.
Misattributed

“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”

Iris Murdoch livre The Message to the Planet

The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 322.

“The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.”

Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 137

“All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.”

Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 127

“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”

Iris Murdoch livre The Book and the Brotherhood

The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.

“The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.”

Iris Murdoch Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 7, p. 113

“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”

Quoted in The Observer September 13, 1987.

“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”

Iris Murdoch livre The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974) p. 37.

“To eat, teeth must meet.”

Iris Murdoch livre The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974), p. 66.

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