The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direct perception; that is to say it does not originate in concepts, and concepts are not what it communicates. This is what more than anything else differentiates good art from bad, or more accurately authentic from inauthentic art. The latter often originates in a… — Bryan Magee Copy Share
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, the next most likely scenario, it seems to… — Bryan Magee Copy Share
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“Like the character Moliere who discovered to his astonishment that he had been speaking prose all his life, I discovered to my astonishment that… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“I had a pupil who turned in a couple of well-crafted essays on Descartes, subjecting "cogito ergo sum" to effective and damaging criticism...This was… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
