Behinds Quote by Bryan Magee

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

You have heard of, and studied various systems of philosophy; but real philosophy is opposed to all systems.

— Frances Wright

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

— Will Durant

Sometimes we let other people's reality become our own. The circumstances need to be studied to thus follow a philosophy.

— Anonymous

To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.

— Jay L. Garfield

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant…

— Pam Gems

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

Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to…

— Bertrand Russell

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

— Simon Blackburn

Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists,…

— Mario Bunge

Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the…

— Josiah Royce

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of…

— William James