💥 Top 10 Quotes of A.J. Ayer - Philosopher

Top 10 Quotes of A.J. Ayer:
▸ I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
▸ Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
▸ The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
▸ 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.
▸ It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.
▸ 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.
▸ Even logical positivists are capable of love.
▸ While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
▸ 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.
▸ 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.
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🖎 Author: A.J. Ayer
♛ Career: Philosopher
📅 Life: October 29, 1910 - June 27, 1989
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