"Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality."

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“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

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— Alfred Jules Ayer

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Education1906–1994

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