It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
A.J. AyerThe only possible basis for a sound morality is mutual tolerance and respect: tolerance of one anotherโs customs and opinions; respect for one anotherโs rights and feelings; awareness of one anotherโs needs.
A.J. AyerI suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.
A.J. AyerI saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
A.J. AyerThe misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.
A.J. Ayer