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

January 1, 1970

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Emphasizing his views on philosophy as something abstract and separate from normal life to Isaiah Berlin, in the early 1930s, as quoted in A.J. Ayer: A Life (1999) by Ben Rogers, p. 2.