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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this — what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as "mankind's need for metaphysics."

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

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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.

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Bryan Magee

Bryan Magee

Born: April 12, 1930
Died: July 26, 2019 (aged 89)
Bio: Bryan Edgar Magee was a British philosopher, broadcaster, politician, author, and poet, best known as a popularizer of philosophy.
Known for:
  1. Confessions of a philosopher (1997)
  2. Wagner and Philosophy (2000)
  3. The philosophy of Schopenhauer (1983)
  4. The great philosophers (1987)
  5. Aspects of Wagner (1968)

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