Assertion Quote by A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

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

— A.J. Ayer

A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This…

— A.J. Ayer