Peirce, Charles Sanders

"The art of reasoning is nothing but arranging things in their proper order."

"I mean by synechism that tendency of philosophical thought which insists upon the decomposition of all problems into simpler ones."

"Education is the process of developing what lies dormant in us."

"Life is full of surprises and improbabilities."

"The happiness of a human is the summum bonum."

"We cannot gain new knowledge without being wrong sometimes."

"Time is a creation of human minds."

"Mathematics is the science of drawing conclusions from hypothetical conditions."

"The only way to learn is by experience."

"Every man is conscious of a profusion of general ideas."

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

"The only really and truly respectful attitude toward mate nature is that of the man of science."

"Justice is the grand condition of society."

"Nothing is worse than the cold of a winter."

"The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes."

"Freedom is the only basis of sound ethics."

"I do not think I am here to be of much influence; but I have tended to the utmost of my ability toward the truth."

"The universe is progressive."

"A belief is of the nature of a habit."

"The highest ideal is not to be rich, nor to be successful in the ordinary sense of the word, but to be a lover of truth."

"Do not block the way of inquiry."

"True science is distinctively the study of useless things."

"The community is a sort of organism."

"All our ideas are nothing but perceptions of relations."

"The art of being sensible is the art of reading between the lines."

"We make the world; we are not mere passive spectators."

"A man's fundamental purpose is to affect the world."

"Logic is not a mere historical science; it is an intellectual discipline."

"The secret of life is to keep growing."

"Creativity is the divine spark."