9 Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes on Philosophy

Charles Sanders Peirce quotes on philosophy

2. It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

5. Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

6. I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

7. By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

8. The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

9. Do not block the way of inquiry.

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

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

15. 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.