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Quotes from The Meaning of Life and Other Essays — A. J. Ayer

1910–1989 England

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The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

The Meaning of Life and Other Essays (1990)

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

The Meaning of Life and Other Essays (1990)

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

The Meaning of Life and Other Essays (1990)

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