A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case. If, as I hold, there is no good reason to… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share 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. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share 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… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share 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… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ...… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share 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… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
