Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch was a philosopher at Oxford and a novelist of enormous productivity — twenty-six books, dense with love triangles, moral crises and unreliable self-knowledge. Her philosophical work argued against the fashionable view that morality is a matter of choice, insisting instead that it begins with attention: seeing another person accurately is the hard part and most of the work. She developed Alzheimer's disease in her seventies. The line between her fiction and her ethics was always thin.