Charles Sanders PeirceTruly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1… ▶372Hope
Charles Sanders PeirceIt is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce372Life
Charles Sanders PeirceThere is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.341HumanityThought
Charles Sanders PeirceAmong the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and str… ▶376Death
Charles Sanders PeirceIf we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in organized knowledge, as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any s… ▶376Truth
Charles Sanders PeirceAll the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner (1992). Reasoning and the logic of things: the Cambridge… ▶376Humanity
Charles Sanders PeirceA quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or… ▶343DeathHopePhilosophy
Charles Sanders PeirceDoubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do… ▶344PoliticsTruth
Charles Sanders PeirceIf liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of socie… ▶377Humanity
Charles Sanders PeirceIt is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life … ▶356LifeThoughtTruth
Charles Sanders PeirceNotwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before u… ▶369TimeTruth
Charles Sanders PeirceAnother characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). Collected Papers of Charles Sander… ▶292Thought
Charles Sanders PeirceUpon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to … ▶325PhilosophyReadingThought
Charles Sanders PeirceIn all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, most… ▶348HumorLifeReading
Charles Sanders PeirceIt is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Klo… ▶359Time
Charles Sanders PeirceIt is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). Collected Papers, p.20, Harvard University Press273Love
Charles Sanders PeirceAll the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (2009). The Logic of Interdisciplinarity: The Monist-series… ▶328PoliticsThought
Charles Sanders PeirceThe essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise. ✨ Charles Sanders Pe… ▶307Hope
Charles Sanders PeirceIf man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless … ▶274DeathHopeHumanity
Charles Sanders PeirceIt is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones. … ▶297Time
Charles Sanders PeirceTrue science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is lik… ▶242DeathThoughtTruth
Charles Sanders PeirceKepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the stu… ▶308HopeHumanityReading
Charles Sanders PeirceFor example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry; but they do … ▶3210PoliticsTruth
Charles Sanders PeirceBad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Morris Raphael Cohen, John Dew… ▶231LoveTruth
Charles Sanders PeirceEvery work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was … ▶3110PoliticsTime
Charles Sanders PeirceThe one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions. ✨ The Philosophy of Peirce: S… ▶243DeathPhilosophy
Charles Sanders Peirce... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). The Essen… ▶276Thought
Charles Sanders PeirceThe woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language … ▶245LifeThought
Charles Sanders PeirceGenerality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing. 191DeathLifeTruth
Charles Sanders PeirceThe third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the f… ▶214LifeLovePhilosophy
