“Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor… — Brand Blanshard Art Copy Share Image
“...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We… — Brand Blanshard Coherence Copy Share Image
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a… — Brand Blanshard Anchors 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… — Brand Blanshard Authority Copy Share Image
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. — Brand Blanshard Currents Copy Share Image
[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step… — Brand Blanshard Burden 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 Accounts 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… — Brand Blanshard Choice Copy Share Image
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard Character 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...… — Brand Blanshard Create 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,… — Brand Blanshard All things 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,… — Brand Blanshard Creating Copy Share Image