Peirce, Charles Sanders

"Dreams make life worth living."

"Every person is a sign."

"The intellectual power is nothing without the moral character."

"The purpose of a sign is to bring the mind into a relation with something beyond the sign itself."

"All that is necessary for a person to become better is to know what is good."

"A sign is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity."

"There is no thought without signs."

"The third grade of clearness is attained only by the practice of philosophy."

"The development of the mind is the development of the world."

"All the knowledge we possess is but the fruit of past experience."

"Every man is responsible for his thoughts and words."

"The mind is not a warehouse of fixed ideas but a dynamic process."

"Philosophy is the science that tries to answer the riddle of the universe."

"The beautiful is that which comes to the mind suddenly, and cannot be anticipated."

"Education is an ongoing experience."

"The universe is the totality of all significant signs."

"A person thinks of himself as having various characters."

"All things present themselves as signs through the mind."

"Reason cannot be the sole guide of life; instinct has its equal rights."

"The true method of knowledge is to make a beginning in a small way."

"Reality is something in which every man participates."

"The supreme commandment of the Critical Common-sensist is: Do not pretend to doubt what you do not really doubt."

"Every body of knowledge develops in complexity and specialization."

"Thought is entirely relative to its expression."

"The meaning of a sign is not in itself but in the mind that interprets it."

"Knowledge is a species of representation."

"When desire is absent, so is man, even though he may still breathe."

"Our experience is a world of signs."

"The interpreter of a sign is as much determined by the sign as the thing signified is."

"Truth is the conformity of a representation to its object."