Iris Murdoch Men Quotations

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.