Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Change, Struggle, Doubt

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

Evolution, Vague, Definite

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

Good, Bad, Fact

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Nothing, Reality, Whatever

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

Envy, Impossible, Reason

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Future, Character, May

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

Mind, Judgment, Concept

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Sometimes, Less, Belief

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Give, Different, Action

The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Nature, Future, Thinking

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Born: September 10, 1839

Died: April 19, 1914

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