Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (A.J. Ayer) Quotes
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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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.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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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.
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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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.
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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.
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Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
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I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.
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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.
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Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.
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The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.
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Even logical positivists are capable of love.
