The idea does not belong to the soul it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
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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
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.
Charles Sanders Peirce
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.
Charles Sanders Peirce
Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings the perfect exactitude of its results their broad universality their practical infallibility.
Charles Sanders Peirce
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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
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