Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (A.J. Ayer) Quotes

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer

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• At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Different
  • Two

• The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Life
  • Training
  • Animal

• I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.

  

  Dana Perino
  • History
  • Age
  • Thought

• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Want
  • Kid
  • Obscure

• Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Reality

• And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press End in what All begins and ends in - Yes; Think then you are To-day what Yesterday You were - To-morrow You shall not be less.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Wine

• By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Eyes
  • Dying
  • Humble

• Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Chaos

• I know it's not the '80s anymore, but the '80s are back with a vengeance. Get yourself some neon; whether it's a cute sneaker, a pump or a cross-body bag, add to your wardrobe a pop of neon.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Cute

• Oh, to live on Sugar MountainWith the barkers and the colored balloons,You can't be twenty on Sugar MountainThough you're thinking thatYou're leaving there too soon,You're leaving there too soon.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Leaving

• One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • World
  • Done
  • Feelings

• It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • War
  • Governments
  • Rulers

• I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Paint
  • Sing

• Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Science

• I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Experience
  • Help

• Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.

  Karl Evang
  • Giving
  • Individual
  • Population

• Even logical positivists are capable of love.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Capable
  • Logical