The Opinion Which Is Fated To Be

I Define A Sign As Anything Which Is So Determined By Something Else, Called Its Object, And So Determines An Effect Upon A Person, Which Effect I Call Its Interpretant, That The Latter Is Thereby Mediately Determined By The Former.

Law Is Par Excellence The Thing That Wants A Reason. Now The Only Possible Way Of Accounting For The Laws Of Nature, And For Uniformity In General, Is To Suppose Them Results Of Evolution.

If Man Were Immortal He Could Be Perfectly Sure Of Seeing The Day When Everything In Which He Had Trusted Should Betray His Trust.

It Is Not Knowing, But The Love Of Learning, That Characterizes The Scientific Man.

The Truth Is, That Common-sense, Or Thought As It First Emerges Above The Level Of The Narrowly Practical, Is Deeply Imbued With That Bad Logical Quality To Which The Epithet Metaphysical Is Commonly Applied; And Nothing Can Clear It Up But A Severe Course Of Logic.