“...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… — 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… — 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… — 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
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
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share
[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share
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
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share
“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
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
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share
