Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

Philosophy … consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

I guess on one hand I believe it doesn't matter if there is life after death.

The soul is an illusion.

If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held.

The idea of spirituality is difficult to discuss.

There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology.

You can't find the soul with a scalpel.

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am.

And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify?

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.