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Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes


An American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Charles Sanders Peirce (September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years. Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism. In 1934, the philosopher Paul Weiss called Peirce "the most original and versatile of American philosophers and America's greatest logician".

Here are some famous quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce.

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

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It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

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We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason) but upon that department that is deep and sure which is instinct.