A. J. Ayer Quotes on Life
Alfred Jules Ayer was a British philosopher and the most prominent representative of logical positivism in the English-speaking world. This page collects quotes attributed to A. J. Ayer on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“There is philosophy , which is about conceptual analysis — about the meaning of what we say — and there is all of this … all of life .”
Emphasizing his views on philosophy as something abstract and separate from normal life to Isaiah Berlin , in the early 1930s, as quoted in A.J. Ayer: A Life (1999) by Ben Rogers, p. 2. -
“Emphasizing his views on philosophy as something abstract and separate from normal life to Isaiah Berlin , in the early 1930s, as quoted in A.J. Ayer: A Life (1999) by Ben Rogers, p. 2.”
There is philosophy , which is about conceptual analysis — about the meaning of what we say — and there is all of this … all of life . -
“As quoted in Profile of Sir Alfred Ayer (June 1971) by Euro-Television, quoted in A.J. Ayer: A Life (1999), p. 2.”
I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts. -
“It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”
As quoted in The Observer (17 August 1986).