No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris MurdochDogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
Iris MurdochI have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.
Iris MurdochArt is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.
Iris Murdoch