Quotes by Bryan Magee

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  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.
  Source: Heidegger and Modern Existentialism (1977)

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

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  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.

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

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