"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out."

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Iris Murdoch

#Intellectual Quotes #Literature Quotes #Sociologists Quotes

“Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.”
“The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.”
“They say you cannot love two people equally at once,â€ she said. â€œAnd perhaps for others that is so. But you and Willâ€”you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.”
“Iâ€™m trying to accept where Iâ€™m at, not run from it.”
“I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.”
“When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.”
“The type of adverts to be found on television and in glossy magazines are visually designed to have a power over the mind before they can even be questioned. The dark side of my work, primarily concerns the internal mechanisms of visual imagery and how these mechanisms address the mind.”
“There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.”

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