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“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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