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Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [. . . ] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis.

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A.J. Ayer

It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

Effort, Insightful, Trying, Life, Spent, Rational
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Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

Bertrand, Good Man, Men, Saint, Wished

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.

Analysis, Concerned, Criticism, Fairly, Philosophy

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

Factual, Finite Number, Number, Numbers, Proposition, Records

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

Analysis, Conceptual, Meaning, Philosophy, Say

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.

Atheism, Emotionally, Facts, Show, Think, Thinking
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