Iris Murdoch Quotes about Soul

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

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

Iris Murdoch

Art, Soul, Finals

Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.491, Penguin

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

Iris Murdoch

Effort, Soul, Desire

Iris Murdoch (1994). “Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals”, p.159, Penguin

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

Iris Murdoch

Loneliness, Games, Soul

Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

I hate solitude but I am afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself and to turn it into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls.

Iris Murdoch

Hate, Self, Soul

"Under the Net".