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

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

Iris Murdoch
People, Literature, Wavelength
Iris Murdoch (2010). “The Message To The Planet”, p.536, Random House

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

Iris Murdoch
Time, Fate, Literature

Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.

Iris Murdoch
Literature, Christ
Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.88, Penguin

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

Iris Murdoch
Art, Struggle, Literature
"The Philosopher's Pupil".

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

Iris Murdoch
Technique, Literature, Emotion

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
Literature, Moral, Truth Is

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

Iris Murdoch
Literature, Matter, Goodness
Iris Murdoch (1978). “The Nice and the Good”, p.103, Penguin

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Iris Murdoch
Intellectual, Literature, Sociologists

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Iris Murdoch
Taken, Literature, Serious
Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr

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
Survival, Comfort, Literature
"The Message to the Planet". Book by Iris Murdoch, p. 532, 1989.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Iris Murdoch
Literature, Mary

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