A.j. Ayer

I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make t ...

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of ver ...

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

...His argument, as set out in The Problems of Philosophy, was based on the empirical fact that we a ...

The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to b ...

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

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

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

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great a ...

If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no g ...

If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religiou ...

It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the ...

If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that ...

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

We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how t ...