“Something else I learnt... is respect for reality as against all the many alternatives to it – conventional assumptions, fashionable ways of looking at things, ideologies, social or personal aspirations, fears, intentions, wishful thinking, religious claims, and the rest...”

“Something else I learnt... is respect for reality as against all the many alternatives to it – conventional assumptions, fashionable ways of looking at things, ideologies, social or personal aspirations, fears, intentions, wishful thinking, religious claims, and the rest...”

— Bryan Magee