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

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


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Even logical positivists are capable of love.



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I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.



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

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



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No moral system can rest solely on authority.



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



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