I want to believe- February 14, 2008 This is a doozy of a sentence from "The Fixation of Belief" by Charles Sanders Peirce: Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. A little more straightforward:http://www.pixelcharmer.com/fieldnotes/2008/i-want-to-believe/ |