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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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If I knew about sailing ships I would put in sailing ships. And in a way, as a novelist, I would rather know about sailing ships than about philosophy.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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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.
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Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs
Iris Murdoch
Born:
July 15, 1919
Died:
February 8, 1999
(aged 79)
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