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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce

What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force. — Benjamin Peirce

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray. — Charles Sanders Peirce

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. — Charles Sanders Peirce

My language is the sum total of myself. — Charles Sanders Peirce

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. — Charles Sanders Peirce

We cannot begin with complete doubt. — Charles Sanders Peirce

The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Give a boy - ANY boy - enough time, and he WILL eventually pick his nose! — Lincoln Peirce

Any given moment contains unlimited futures that can become real. The reality that occurs is the one you pay attention to. — Penney Peirce

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about. — Charles Sanders Peirce

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Galactic Hot Dogs is an insanely entertaining, eye-popping adventure! — Lincoln Peirce

We think only in signs. — Charles Sanders Peirce

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one. — Charles Sanders Peirce

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom. — Charles Sanders Peirce

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers. — Lincoln Peirce

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. — Charles Sanders Peirce

To know what we think, to be masters of our own meaning, will make a solid foundation for great and weighty thought. — Charles Sanders Peirce

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions. — Benjamin Peirce

It was a good book and it was an awesome and fun thing to be in color. — Lincoln Peirce

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere . — Charles Sanders Peirce

I can't do anything about the thoughts that come into my head, but I can do something about the ones that stay there!. — Penney Peirce

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

How come you're always calling that TV weather guy?
Yeah you're obsessed with him! — Lincoln Peirce

We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic. — Charles Sanders Peirce

The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Theres no mystery-the EMU Club is a hit! This is a fun, funny adventure that kids will love to read. — Lincoln Peirce

The soul has no other wish than to have an unlimited number of fearless, joyful playmates on the journey home. — Penney Peirce

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Stress is something that makes you feel you can't be yourself. — Penney Peirce

And it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Your contribution is the energy produced in the doing of something, not the end product. — Penney Peirce

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling
it's about choosing. — Penney Peirce

Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged. — Penney Peirce

All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Truly, 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

It is ... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague. — Charles Sanders Peirce

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally. — Penney Peirce

Emil Drukker, the Head-hunter of Cologne. — Earl Peirce

Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts. — Charles Sanders Peirce

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. — Charles Sanders Peirce