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Man is a creature who makes pictures of...

Author

Iris Murdoch

Categories

Life on Planet Earth

Keywords

Humanity

Date Added

May 1, 2018

Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself, and then comes to resemble that picture.

“Metaphysics and Ethics,” in Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature, ed. Peter J. Conradi (London: Chatto & Windus, 1997), 75.