Sommer-Jade

“If we consider what the work of attention is like, how continuously it goes on, and how imperceptibly it builds up structures of value round about us, we shall not be surprised that at the crucial moments of choice most of the business of choosing is already over.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good

“I have spoken of efforts of attention directed upon individuals, and of obedience to reality as an exercise of love, and have suggested that reality and individual present themselves to us in moral contexts as ideal endpoints or ideas of reason. This surely is the place where the concept of good lives. Good, real, love — these words are closely connected.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good

“Philosophers merely do explicitly and systematically, and often with art, what the ordinary person does by instinct.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good

“To do philosophy is to explore one’s own temperament, and yet, at the same time, to attempt to discover the truth.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good