Bryan Magee Quotes
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Rodeo careers can end without warning, as quick as the next try at an eight-second ride.
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Everyone should respect the sovereignty of the EU countries.
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Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic.
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The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
