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 s….

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

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

No moral system can rest solely on authority..

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….

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life..

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experi….

The only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one another’s customs and opinions; respect for one anothe….

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 exp….

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scien….

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 ….

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..

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 be….

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 sig….

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

Even logical positivists are capable of love..

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….

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

A prevalent fallacy is the assumption that a proof of an afterlife would also be a proof of the existence of a deity. This is far from being the case….

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science..