A Quote by Iris Murdoch

The very madness of the scheme protects it.

Iris Murdoch

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Madness Protects Scheme Very

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Iris Murdoch
Irish - Novelist
July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

Paulo Coelho

A lifevest protects you from drowning and a bulletproof vest protects you from getting shot, and a sweater vest protects you from pretty girls.

Demetri Martin

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Saul Bellow

A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we are not equipped to perceive it, either by natural or supernatural means, is a nightmarish obscenity. C: The very notion of a grand scheme of things is a nightmarish obscenity.

Thomas Ligotti

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.

Celeste Holm

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Barbara Amiel

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Mata Amritanandamayi

The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

Dominique de Villepin

If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.

Francis George

A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.

Emma Goldman

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

Holly Black

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

Richard Cecil

Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.

Thomas Hughes

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness ...Maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

Glenn Greenwald

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