Bryan Magee Quotes

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

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#2. 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

#3. 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.

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Kourtney Kardashian

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

Alan Cooper

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Bryan Magee

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

Bryan Magee

#12. 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

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

Bryan Magee

#14. 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

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

David W. Earle

#16. 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

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

John Steinbeck

#18. 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

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

Bryan Magee

#20. 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