# Quote — Iris Murdoch, Sartre

> 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.

- Author: [Iris Murdoch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch.md)
- Book: [Sartre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch/sartre.md)
- Page: 148
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch#Sartre:_Romantic_Rationalist_(1953)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch/sartre/we-know-that

## More from this book

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

p. 138 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch/sartre/the-novel-the.md)

> 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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch/sartre/serious-reflexion-about.md)

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

p. 113 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch/sartre/the-only-satisfied.md)