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> [Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/theism-is-so-confused-and-the-sentences-in-which-god-appears-so/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-j-ayer/)

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## More by A.J. Ayer

> [No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/no-morality-can-be-founded-on-authority-even-if-the-authority-were/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/in-other-words-the-propositions-of-philosophy-are-not-factual-but/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/the-principles-of-logic-and-mathematics-are-true-universally-simply/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/i-suddenly-stopped-and-looked-out-at-the-sea-and-thought-my-god-how/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/the-fact-that-people-have-religious-experiences-is-interesting-from/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/if-god-is-a-metaphysical-term-then-it-cannot-be-even-probable-that-a/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/but-if-science-may-be-said-to-be-blind-without-philosophy-it-is-true/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/what-is-not-so-generally-recognized-is-that-there-can-be-no-way-of/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/bertrand-russell-would-not-have-wished-to-be-called-a-saint-of-any/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/it-seems-that-i-have-spent-my-entire-life-trying-to-make-life-more/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-j-ayer/)

> [There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/there-is-philosophy-which-is-about-conceptual-analysis-about-the/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-j-ayer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/if-the-assertion-that-there-is-a-god-is-nonsensical-then-the-atheist/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/a-prevalent-fallacy-is-the-assumption-that-a-proof-of-an-afterlife/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-j-ayer/)

> [Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/theism-is-so-confused-and-the-sentences-in-which-god-appears-so/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-j-ayer/)

> [Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/why-should-you-mind-being-wrong-if-someone-can-show-you-that-you-are/)

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