Occupation: Philosopher Birth: October 29, 1910 Death: June 27, 1989
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort..
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….
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….
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….
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….
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 ….
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?.
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….
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them..
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….
But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science..
It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology..
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 ab….
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful..
Even logical positivists are capable of love..
The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of….
No moral system can rest solely on authority..
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of physical….
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….
Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of bel….