Quote of the day
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
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)







