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The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

Book by Charles Sanders Peirce · 3 quotes · Men, Belief, Ifs

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The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893) Quotes

“Still, 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.”

“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.”

“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.”