“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
“Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor the tracing with the mind’s eye of some empirical order in its object, but an endeavour to realize in thought an ideal order which would satisfy an inner demand. The nearer thought comes to its goal, the more… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share
“...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our mind to return to union with things as they are in their ordered wholeness…. and if we take this view, our notion of truth is… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
I am a determinist...The real issue, so far as the will is concerned, is not whether we can do what we choose to do,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
![“[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to form theories freely of how to rid yourself of that burden . . . ; The third step is to develop in foresight the consequences of your proposals . . . ; The fourth and final step in thinking…” quote by Brand Blanshard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4bf/brand-blanshard-35170_burden_how-to-think-about-a-problem-the-first-s_1268830.jpg)
