It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although …

Charles Sanders Peirce
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It 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. Kloesel (1992). The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893), p.122, Indiana University Press
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It 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. Kloesel (1992). The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893), p.122, Indiana University Press

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