Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

Now, to say that a lot of objects is finite, is the same as to say that if we pass through the class from one to another we shall necessarily come round to one of those individuals already passed; that is, if every one of the lot is in any one-to-one relation to one of the lot, then to every one of the lot some one is in this same relation.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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• I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Friends
  • Animal
  • Same

• Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Long
  • Need
  • Resources

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Worry
  • Random
  • Risks

• Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • World
  • Name

• When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• It's later than it's ever been.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Been
  • Ever
  • Later

• Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Past
  • Present
  • Story

• On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Opinions

• Children are our future, and God loves the children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Children
  • Future

• Catholicism is a religion of idols.

  

  Jack Chick

• It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • City

• I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.

  

  Joan Allen

• I'm not much involved in sports, and I don't play, either.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Sports

• I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

  

  Alain Robert
  • Life
  • Up

• What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Running
  • Question

• I hope that the image of gene therapy is changing. It seems to be.

  

  Liz Parrish
  • Hope

• There's no doubt about it: people want local, real food.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • People
  • Real
  • Food

• Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.

  

  Penn Jillette

• To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Successful
  • Show Business

• Now, to say that a lot of objects is finite, is the same as to say that if we pass through the class from one to another we shall necessarily come round to one of those individuals already passed; that is, if every one of the lot is in any one-to-one relation to one of the lot, then to every one of the lot some one is in this same relation.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce