--- title: "1 Life Rational Quotes By A.J. Ayer" description: "1 Life Rational quotes by A.J. Ayer. Plus more from A.J. Ayer and more Life Rational sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/525/a-j-ayer-18289_effort_it-seems-that-i-have-spent-my-entire-lif_1175610.png" --- > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/525/a-j-ayer-18289_effort_it-seems-that-i-have-spent-my-entire-lif_1175610.png) ## 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/) [A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-j-ayer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life-rational/a-j-ayer/#itemlist", "name": "1 Life Rational Quotes By A.J. 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