Quotes by Bryan Magee

Quotes 1 till 5 of 5.

• I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

  Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977)

  ― Bryan Magee
  - +

   0
• It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

  ― Bryan Magee
  - +

   0
• Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

  ― Bryan Magee
  - +

   0
• The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.

  ― Bryan Magee
  - +

   0
• The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

  ― Bryan Magee
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• platitudinous
• extraordinary
• superstitions
• philosophers
• themselves
• philosophy

Similar authors

• Thomas Hobbes
  British philosopher 32
• Herbert Spencer
  British Philosopher 21
• Francis H. Bradley
  British Philosopher 18
• Benjamin Whichcote
  British philosopher 8
• Francis Herbert Hedge
  British philosopher 5

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations