"We cannot begin with complete doubt. We must begin with all the prejudices which we actually have when we enter upon the study ofphilosophy. These prejudices are not to be dispelled by a maxim, for they are things which it does not occur to us can be questioned. A person may, it is true, in the course of his studies, find reason to doubt what he began by believing; but in that case he doubts because he has a positive reason for it, and not on account of the Cartesian maxim. Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts."

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Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1991). “Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic”, p.55, UNC Press Books

Charles Sanders Peirce

#Philosophy Quotes #Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.”
“I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.”

Source : "Maggie's Centres: can architecture cure cancer?" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.
“There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.”
“Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.”

Source : Edmund Spenser, John Aikin (1810). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. Upton. With a preface, biographical and critical, by J. Aikin”, p.162
“[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.”

Source : Bronislaw Malinowski (2001). “Man and Culture: An Evaluation of the Work of Bronislaw Malinowski”, p.6, Psychology Press
“I never had a desire to hurt anybody.”
“You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first 10 years that I was a writer, I never would have made it to begin with.”
“Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.”

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