Skip to content

Acceptable Quote by A.J. Ayer

“I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's…” quote by A.J. Ayer — Download Open image

“I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Acceptable Atheism Death Ends Existence Facts Life Positive atheism Shows Thinking

More by A.J. Ayer

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Image

In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of…

Image

The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this…

Image

I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never…

Image

The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that…

Image

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to…

Image

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

Image

“What is not so generally recognized is that there can be no way of proving that the existence of a god, such as the…

Image

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

Image

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

Image

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ...…

Image

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it…

Image

Explore all 35 A.J. Ayer quotes

More Acceptable quotes

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

Arthur Koestler

Image

I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it…

Image

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues…

Image

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a…

Image

THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.

Harold Covington

Image

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Elfriede Jelinek

Image

The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays…

William Howard Taft

Image

Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and…

Richard Dawkins

Image

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or…

Dale T. Mortensen

Image

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured…

Sally Struthers

Image

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Image

In any case, open-seat presidential elections like 2008 just are different in character from incumbent reelects, and I think that's the most important thing…

William Kristol

Image

Browse all 720 Acceptable quotes