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💦 Top 20 Quotes of A.J. Ayer - Philosopher
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Top 20 Quotes of A.J. Ayer:
✧ I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
✧ No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
✧ If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.
✧ But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
✧ We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.
✧ Even logical positivists are capable of love.
✧ The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
✧ The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.
✧ We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
✧ The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
✧ Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
✧ There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.
✧ 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.
✧ In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.
✧ I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.
✧ There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
✧ The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.
✧ It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
✧ Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
✧ I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
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🖎 Author: A.J. Ayer
♛ Career: Philosopher
📅 Life: October 29, 1910 - June 27, 1989
🏷 #quotes_A.J._Ayer, #quotes__Saint, #quotes_Philosophy
✧ I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.
✧ No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
✧ If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance.
✧ But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.
✧ We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.
✧ Even logical positivists are capable of love.
✧ The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one another’s rights and feelings; awareness of one another’s needs.
✧ The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.
✧ We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
✧ The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.
✧ Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
✧ There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.
✧ 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.
✧ In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical, or even mental, objects; they express definitions, or the formal consequences of definitions. Accordingly we may say that philosophy is a department of logic. For we will see that the characteristic mark of a purely logical enquiry, is that it is concerned with the formal consequences of our definitions and not with questions of empirical fact.
✧ I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.
✧ There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
✧ The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.
✧ It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
✧ Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
✧ I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩
🖎 Author: A.J. Ayer
♛ Career: Philosopher
📅 Life: October 29, 1910 - June 27, 1989
🏷 #quotes_A.J._Ayer, #quotes__Saint, #quotes_Philosophy
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