Sommer-Jade

“Philosophy is often a matter of finding a suitable context in which to say the obvious.”
― 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

“I don’t think true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly… Maybe you get lots of true loves then. Maybe that’s the gift you get for being brave.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

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