More Fine Words From Brand Blanshard

In the heading of this blog, I presented a quotation from the late American philosopher, Brand Blanshard, concerning the value of being reasonable. Below is another that is just as moving. It is from his 1984 work, Four Reasonable Men.

[R]easonableness, so often painted in dull, unattractive gray, is the most desirable of all human virtues. Though it involves discipline and restraint, which are always unpopular, its restraints are tickets of admission to a wider world of happiness, understanding, and effectiveness. It is indeed the great need of mankind.