Brand Blanshard Quotes on Truth
Percy Brand Blanshard was an American philosopher of an Anglo-American rationalist temper, a long-serving professor at Yale, and one of the principal twentieth-century defenders of the coherence theory of truth and of the rationality of the universe. This page collects quotes attributed to Brand Blanshard on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“All thought aims at coherence.”
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“Reason is the supreme guide of life.”
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“Truth is the grasp of the necessary connections of things.”
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“A philosophy that abandons reason abandons philosophy.”
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Attributed to Brand Blanshard:
“Clear writing is a moral as well as an intellectual virtue.”