The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.
Iris MurdochMoralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Iris MurdochOnly love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
Iris MurdochWe are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
Iris Murdoch