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Top 20 A.J. Ayer Quotes (2024 Update)

A.J. Ayer Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “Even logical positivists are capable of love.”

2. “Even logical positivists are capable of love.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.”

3. “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 Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.”

5. “No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.”

7. “It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.”

8. “I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

9. “While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.”

10. “The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “I saw a Divine Being. I’m afraid I’m going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.”

11. “I saw a Divine Being. I’m afraid I’m going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”

12. “Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “No moral system can rest solely on authority.”

14. “No moral system can rest solely on authority.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “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 is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.”

15. “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 is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”

16. “It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “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.”

18. “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 Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.”

20. “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 Quote: “It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

21. “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 Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

A.J. Ayer Quote: “To predict tomorrow’s weather, I need not take into account the state of mind of the Emperor of Manchukuo.”

23. “To predict tomorrow’s weather, I need not take into account the state of mind of the Emperor of Manchukuo.”

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