Bryan Magee
Bryan Magee
Bryan Edgar Magee is a British philosopher, broadcaster, politician, author, and poet, best known as a popularizer of philosophy...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 April 1930
philosophy thinking important
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
interesting magic may
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.
real philosophy writing
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
real believe self
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 me, is something along the lines indicated by Schopenhauer. But neither of these is what I most want. What I want to be true is that I have an individual, innermost self, a soul, which is the real me and which survives my death. That too could be true. But alas, I do not believe it.
life feelings everyday
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.
mystery humans human-beings
It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.