Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, 'It lightens and it thunders,' is conjunctive, 'It lightens or it thunders' is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.

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• It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Happy
  • Easy
  • Own

• Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • She
  • Language

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Important
  • Me
  • Influence

• I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Song

• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Country
  • American
  • Political

• If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Game
  • Win
  • Problems

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • God
  • Society
  • Marriage

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Serious

• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Gift

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Questions

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.

  

  Elaine Pagels
  • God
  • Die
  • Author

• It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• Who can proveWit to be witty when with deeper groundDulness intuitive declares wit dull?

  

  George Eliot
  • Witty

• I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
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  • Differences
  • Theory

• A pair of statements may be taken conjunctively or disjunctively; for example, 'It lightens and it thunders,' is conjunctive, 'It lightens or it thunders' is disjunctive. Each such individual act of connecting a pair of statements is a new monad for the mathematician.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
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