Philosophy Quote by Charles S. Peirce — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be inscribed upon every wall of the city of philosophy: Do not block the way of inquiry.”

“Hope is not naive—it is disciplined courage.”

“Even if there is a small lie in the truth you telling. It will make the truth questionable.”

“The disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the soul, curing it of improper emotions, false beliefs, and faulty judgments, which are the causes of so much hardship and handicap. To heal the body one turns to the practitioner of the art of healing the body, but to heal the soul there is no doctor to turn to, and each of us is left to become that doctor unto himself. Yet, this need not stop us from exhorting others to imitate us in the godly art, in the forlorn hope that they might transform themselves into better citizens for Athens and better companions for us.”

“Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.”

“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.”