Alfred Jules Ayer - Philosophy Quotes

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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.

Alfred Jules Ayer

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis — about the meaning of what we say — and there is all of this … all of life.

Alfred Jules Ayer

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.

Alfred Jules Ayer

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

Alfred Jules Ayer