"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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Source : YouTube Channel "Manufacturing Intellect"/"Heidegger and Existentialism with Bryan Magee (1977)", www.youtube.com. September 17, 2017.

Bryan Magee

#Life Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Everyday Quotes

“Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.”
“... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that sounded good when played it ... and he cared nothing about the collectibility of an instrument ... his philosophy was "A good player can make any guitar sound good" ... to Michael, a guitar was just a tool...”
“Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.”
“I just think God put me on this earth as a tool... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished.”
“A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood (1953). “A mathematicians's miscellany”
“She poured a little social sewage into his ears.”
“I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
“The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.”

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