A good deal of my own sense of value does not come from thinking nice thoughts about myself. It stems instead from being ...

Iris Murdoch’s 600-page, 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea is quite simply among the most gorgeous books I have ever read. Murdoch’s 19th novel – and the winner of the 1978 Booker Prize ...

We often hear people say, "If you don't love yourself, how are you going to love somebody else?" Is this actually true?

Born in Dublin, Iris Murdoch was brought up in England and took a degree in ... I don’t think too much weight should be put on the notion that the book is about the nature of philosophy; it’s about ...

Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making offbeat public pronouncements and unconventional romantic choices, and ...

the British author, who passed away at 66 after being diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease called posterior cortical atrophy. Dame Iris Murdoch, the novelist and winner of the ...

British author Sir Terry Pratchett succumbed to a rare form of Alzheimer’s, posterior cortical atrophy, at age 66. Novelist Dame Iris Murdoch battled Alzheimer’s before her death in 1999 at 79.

If you're looking for inspiration for your own love letter, these quotes about love are sure to convey your deepest feelings.

His books, which achieved regular sales of 5-6,000 ... among them the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch, who found a great deal of traditional Christianity incredible yet recognised in Jesus ...

Despite the acclaim his books received, despite his riches ... just for fun I’d send her down the path that Iris Murdoch carved out between fiction and philosophy. Murdoch, another sexually ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), scientists have uncovered a startling link between higher education levels and the speed of cognitive decline following a ...