Iris Murdoch Quotes

The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.

Iris Murdoch

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• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • She
  • Book
  • Remember

• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Happy
  • Yourself

• Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Up
  • Different
  • Character

• A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Star

• Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Free
  • Story
  • Consistency

• I try to keep an even keel.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Try
  • Keep
  • Even

• They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Him

• I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Different
  • Done
  • Career

• The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Unity
  • Divine
  • Signs

• I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Up
  • Book
  • Growing

• A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Lived

• When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• We lived together as kids, and now we're taking care of each other as men.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Men
  • Kids
  • Together

• When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Smile

• Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Life
  • Human
  • Act

• My young nerds, here's the deal:

  

  Craig Newmark

• Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Nature
  • Human

• There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Free
  • Development
  • Negro Community

• It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

  

  Richard Steele
  • Pursuit
  • Endless
  • Frivolous

• My family is Chinese-Taiwanese. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. The community in which I grew up was pretty white. The storybooks you got at school featured white children and an animal, or animals, and as you got older, the novels you were assigned were about, like, the problems of white boys and their dogs.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• In my 20s, it was easy. In your 40s, it's a lot more challenging. You have to look at it like you're an actor, but you're also a professional athlete. You have to train.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.

  

  Iris Murdoch