I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.
A.J. AyerIt is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.
A.J. AyerThere is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.
A.J. AyerBertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
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