Bryan Magee Quotes

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

Bryan Magee

#2. I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I don't just accept what I'm told.

Beth Ditto

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

Bryan Magee

#4. 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

#5. I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

John Steinbeck

#6. And after Salinas, as we have seen, that means that you cannot simply remain mute in the face of police questioning, but rather must say something to invoke your legal right to refuse to answer their questions. Second,

James Duane

#7. Rigid traditions capture souls
prisons of spiritual thought
man's religion has captured a god
grown too small and very weak.

David W. Earle

#8. Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Abraham Verghese

#9. Ignorance is ignorance, not a licence to believe what we like.

Bryan Magee

#10. Something else I learnt...is respect for reality as against all the many alternatives to it--conventional assumptions, fashionable ways of looking at things, ideologies, social or personal aspirations, fears, intentions, wishful thinking, religious claims, and the rest...

Bryan Magee

#11. Grown-ups really are decidedly odd",

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Bryan Magee

#13. I don't think I ever got parts that interested me. Well, I did occasionally, but more often than not, they did not interest me.

Maureen O'Sullivan

#14. And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Alan Cooper

#16. My sisters and I are very hands-on with our collections. I am really passionate about kids' clothes.

Kourtney Kardashian

#17. There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

Peter Noone

#18. 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.

Bryan Magee

#19. Compensation needs to be predominately performance-driven. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#20. Even if it could be shown that all explanations can be reduced ultimately to those of science, and even if all the reductions were then to be carried out, the mystery of the world as such would be as great at the end of the process as it had been at the beginning.

Bryan Magee