We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is…

Charles Sanders Peirce
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We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. ✨ Charles Sanders Peirce (1992). Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898, p.121, Harvard University Press
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