Iris Murdoch Quotes about Reality

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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Iris Murdoch

Life, Reality, Tasks

In 'The Times' 15 April 1983 'Profile'

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Iris Murdoch

Nice, Women, Reality

The Red and the Green ch. 2 (1965)

It is in the capacity to love, that is to SEE, that the liberation of the soul from fantasy consists. The freedom which is a proper human goal is the freedom from fantasy, that is the realism of compassion. What I have called fantasy, the proliferation of blinding self-centered aims and images, is itself a powerful system of energy, and most of what is often called 'will' or 'willing' belongs to this system. What counteracts the system is attention to reality inspired by, consisting of, love.

Iris Murdoch

Love, Powerful, Reality

I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

Iris Murdoch

Believe, Reality, Ideas

Iris Murdoch (1967). “The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts”, p.33, Psychology Press

Iris Murdoch Quotes about Reality

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