Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire ...

Some persons fancy that bias and counter-bias are favorable to the extraction of truth–that hot and ...

To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

It may be asked how I know that there are any Reals. If this hypothesis is the sole support of my me...

Let it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief a...

To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible...

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its char...

We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to...

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to becom...

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't re...

It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, ...