Brand Blanshard Quotes

• If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

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  Block, Science, Consciousness

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• Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

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  Cutting, Anchors, Crafts

  Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.47, Routledge

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• To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

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  Thinking, Currents, Oneself

  Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.493, Routledge

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• Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

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  Men, Cake, Raisins

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• [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 is to compare the consequences of your proposals to see which is best in the light of your scheme of life as a whole . . . ; Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by - think!

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  Party, Thinking, Vacation

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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 uneasy silence.

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  Men, Fruit Flies, Silence

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• No creo que G. H. Hardy dijera tonterías cuando insistía en que el matemático estaba descubriendo en lugar de creando, ni que fuera una completa tontería que Kepler exaltara que estaba pensando los pensamientos de Dios después de él. El mundo es para mí un sistema necesario, y en la medida en que el pensador puede entregar su pensamiento a ese sistema y seguirlo, participa en cierto sentido de lo que es intemporal o eterno.

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  Science, Thinking, Discovery

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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 error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

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  Lying, Errors, Dust

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• Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

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  Character, Would Be, Too Much

  Brand Blanshard (2014). “Reason and Analysis”, p.476, Routledge

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