Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Brand Blanshard

Born: August 27, 1892
Died: November 19, 1987 (aged 95)
Bio: Percy Brand Blanshard was an American philosopher known primarily for his defense of reason. A powerful polemicist, by all accounts he comported himself with courtesy and grace in philosophical controversies and exemplified the "rational temper" he advocated.
Known for:
- The nature of thought (1939)
- On philosophical style. (1954)
- Reason & Analysis (1962)
- Reason and Goodness (1961)