It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
タグ: who, know, envy, impossible, man

"Charles Sanders Peirce"の他の名言

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.
タグ: will, thinking, future, nature
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.
タグ: sometimes, will, facts, man
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.
タグ: free, calm, struggle, change
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
タグ: belief, habit, rise, action
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
タグ: without, chaos, nothing, reality
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