Alfred Jules Ayer Quote

In practice, speculations about the past, if they are not to be entirely idle, must relate to the traces which the past has left.


The Central Questions of Philosophy, Chapter II (p. 25), Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1973


In practice, speculations about the past, if they are not to be entirely idle, must relate to the traces which the past has left.

In practice, speculations about the past, if they are not to be entirely idle, must relate to the traces which the past has left.

In practice, speculations about the past, if they are not to be entirely idle, must relate to the traces which the past has left.

In practice, speculations about the past, if they are not to be entirely idle, must relate to the traces which the past has left.