Brand Blanshard Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.”
-- Brand Blanshard

#Block #Consciousness #Stumbling
“To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.”
-- Brand Blanshard

#Thinking #Currents #Oneself
“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.”
-- Brand Blanshard

#Lying #Errors #Dust
“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

#Men #Silence #Sitting
“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 nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God's thoughts after him. The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.”
-- Brand Blanshard

#Thinking #Discovery #Talking
“Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.”
-- Brand Blanshard

#Men #Cake #Raisins
“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

#Cutting #Anchors #Crafts
“Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.”
-- Brand Blanshard

#Character #Would Be #Too Much

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