If 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 misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. β¨ Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867β1893), p.149, Indiana University Press
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- Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. β¨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Pub β¦ βΆ
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