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

- Bryan Magee

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…

- Bryan Magee

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

- Bryan Magee

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 …

- Bryan Magee

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

- Bryan Magee

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…

- Bryan Magee