Charles Peirce Pragmatism Quotes & Sayings

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

You know what, despite my complaints about The Phantom Menace and Episode II, when Episode III comes out I'll be first in line. I genuinely love it. — Simon Pegg

The dead bolt made a heavy, satisfying thunk as he turned the lock, and Jake found that he liked that sound. He liked it very much. — Christopher Golden

I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself. — Rachel Platten

Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only visible from the top. — Destiny Booze

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

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature. — Edward O. Wilson

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease. — Nelson Mandela

I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white. — Ugo Mochi

Growing up, my best friends were my books, and my Rottweilers. — Kimberly Humphreys

The best things in life are free but impossible to buy... — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

If, on the other hand, I relate to others from the perspective of myself as someone different - a Buddhist, a Tibetan, and so on - I will then create walls to keep me apart from others. — Dalai Lama XIV