Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. - Brand Blanshard
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
- Brand Blanshard
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly … - Brand Blanshard
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly …
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. - Brand Blanshard
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.
[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 yours… - Brand Blanshard
[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 yours…
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. - Brand Blanshard
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.
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
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 high… - Brand Blanshard
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 high…
Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom. - Brand Blanshard
Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. - Brand Blanshard
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
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