We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris MurdochHe was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris MurdochThere is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
Iris MurdochPeople who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.
Iris Murdoch