Brand Blanshard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
[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!
-- Brand Blanshard

#Party #Thinking #Vacation

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.
I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.
When the church is in mission, it is the true church. The church itself is not only a product of that mission but is obligated and destined to extend it by whatever means possible. The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus. To obstruct this is to block God's purposes in and through his people.
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.
Be Consciousness (Itself)- Contemplate Consciousness (Itself)- Transcend Everything in Consciousness (Itself).
Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.

Brand Blanshard famous quotes

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