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

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

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 i….

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

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 ….

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