Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (A.J. Ayer) Quotes
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.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
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So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
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If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
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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.
