Iris Murdoch - Truth Quotes

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He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths.

Iris Murdoch
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

Iris Murdoch
Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.

Iris Murdoch
You cannot have both truth and what you call civilization.

Iris Murdoch
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

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When caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that?

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Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

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I hate solitude, but i'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.

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Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

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For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

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

Iris Murdoch