To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete… — 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… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
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
