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Quotes from Sartre: Romantic Rationalist — Iris Murdoch

1919–1999 Ireland

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All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953)

The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953)

The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953)

The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953)

We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953)

Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)

Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Iris Murdoch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.