"You've obviously never been in love." "I have actually. And <i>awfully</i>. And — always — without hope — I've never had my love reciprocated ever." - Iris Murdoch

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now, can once again be made central.