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> [“...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/reality-is-a-system-completely-ordered-and-fully-intelligible-with/)

[Brand Blanshard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brand-blanshard/)

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## More by Brand Blanshard

> [“Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor the tracing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/thinking-in-art-and-morals-and-even-mathematics-is-neither-the/)

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> [“...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/reality-is-a-system-completely-ordered-and-fully-intelligible-with/)

[Brand Blanshard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brand-blanshard/)

> [Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/once-the-anchor-of-reason-has-been-cut-ones-craft-may-go-anywhere-one/)

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> [When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/when-the-man-who-knows-all-about-the-fruit-fly-chromosomes-finds/)

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> [To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/to-think-at-its-best-is-to-find-oneself-carried-down-the-current-of/)

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> [Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/most-men-live-like-raisins-in-a-cake-of-custom/)

[Brand Blanshard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brand-blanshard/)

> [ \[How to think about a problem:\] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/how-to-think-about-a-problem-the-first-step-is-to-make-the-problem/)

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> [If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/if-science-could-get-rid-of-consciousness-it-would-have-disposed-of/)

[Brand Blanshard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brand-blanshard/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/i-am-a-determinist-the-real-issue-so-far-as-the-will-is-concerned-is/)

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> [Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/shakespeare-without-othello-lear-macbeth-and-hamlet-would-be-all-too/)

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> [“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/i-do-not-think-that-g-h-hardy-was-talking-nonsense-when-he-insisted/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/custom-calls-me-to-t-what-custom-wills-in-all-things-should-we-do-t/)

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> [I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brand-blanshard/i-do-not-think-that-g-h-hardy-was-talking-nonsense-when-he-insisted-2/)

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