We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

My language is the sum total of myself.

The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

If she opened the closet with her skeletons, they might drag her in with them.

She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius- and she would not be afraid.