# Iris Murdoch

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## Books

- [Sartre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch/sartre.md) — 6 quotes

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> The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.

p. 138

> Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)

p. 119

> The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.

p. 113

> All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.

p. 127

> We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.

p. 148

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

p. 137