Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• 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.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Essence, Giving, Different

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.255, Harvard University Press

• The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Essence, Belief, Habit

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1991). “Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic”, p.166, UNC Press Books

• 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.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Exercise, Thinking, Finals

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.129, Indiana University Press

• Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Men, Belief, Humans

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.285, Harvard University Press

• A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Truth, Disappointment, Long

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.397, Harvard University Press

• Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Truth, Essentials, May

• 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.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Philosophical, Men, Facts

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.138, Indiana University Press

• And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Symphony, Intellectual, Musical

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.121, Courier Corporation

• The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions. It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief weare inclined to, and there are certain flatteries to the vanity of man which we all believe by nature, until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Dream, Believe, Men

• 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.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Struggle, Doubt, Wish

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.114, Indiana University Press

• If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Determination, Practice, Jargon

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.377, Harvard University Press

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