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Quotes from Collected Papers — Charles Sanders Peirce

1839–1914 United States

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10 quotes

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

Collected Papers (1931)

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere.

Collected Papers (1931)

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

Collected Papers (1931)

To say, therefore, that thought cannot happen in an instant, but requires a time, is but another way of saying that every thought must be interpreted in another, or that all thought is in signs.

Collected Papers (1931)

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

Collected Papers (1931)

Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.

Collected Papers (1931)

It is ...easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

Collected Papers (1931)

Do not block the way of inquiry.

Collected Papers (1931)

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.

Collected Papers (1931)

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

Collected Papers (1931)

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