We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~ Iris Murdoch
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The news leak is a pseudo‑event par excellence. In its origin and growth, the leak illustrates another axiom of the world of pseudo‑events: pseudo‑events produce more pseudo‑events.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
~ Iris Murdoch
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A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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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.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
~ Iris Murdoch
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
~ Iris Murdoch
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