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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
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
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
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
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
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
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