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

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

Iris Murdoch
Philosophy, Food, Science
Iris Murdoch (1989). “The Book and the Brotherhood”, p.32, Penguin

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

Iris Murdoch
Love, Philosophy, Needs
Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.337, Penguin

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Iris Murdoch
Philosophy, Moving, Pace
Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.500, Penguin

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.

Iris Murdoch
Philosophy, Views, Political
Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.337, Penguin

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

Iris Murdoch
Philosophy, Understanding, Kind
Iris Murdoch (1994). “Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals”, p.209, Penguin

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

Iris Murdoch
Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

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