Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.Iris Murdoch
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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