Actually he says he doesn't believe other people don't exist. — Darkneos

democracy can be tyrannical — Hanover

essential — Pantagruel

so I am not mistaken? — Nickolasgaspar

Actually after talking with the guy who made that quote I've found he has no idea what he's talking about. — Darkneos

Q: What do you think about David Cameron?

A: He doesn't make me think. — Manuel

In the same way that comedians can be depressed.
You can be both flaky and rational, — Amity

Always found it interesting that the creator of the most ruthlessly rational figure in fiction was himself a flake. :razz: — Tom Storm

Curiously Sherlock Holmes creator, AC Doyle, did believe in fairies in a rather notorious episode of credulity. The Cottingley Fairies hoax of 1917 — Tom Storm

changing our perspective on theology could never render it part of a true philosophical inquiry. What defines a philosophical inquire is wisdom and no one has ever become wiser about the the world by studying theology. On the contrary.... — Nickolasgaspar

Oh, yes. Fascism as well.

Stalin, it seems, was very intelligent and well educated for his time and place. He was also a poet, or he wrote poetry in any case. What would Plato, that Original Totalitarian (OT) but scolder of poets, have to say about that? Perhaps Stalin was the philosopher-king Plato longed for all those years ago. Or perhaps Hitler, the artist.

Certainty is the death of thought, and tolerance, and justice, and mercy, and..... — Ciceronianus

cartoon gods — Tom Storm

Ah. Got it — Bitter Crank

come again? — Bitter Crank

Once function is exhausted, form becomes primary, and this seems to always signify the death of that movement. — Noble Dust

I don't have data. It is a capital mistake to theorize without data. — Sherlock Holmes

What defines something as inherently negative for example...? — Nickolasgaspar

Si comprehendis non est Deus. — St. Augustine

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke

The title of my OP is asking whether there is such a distinction. — litewave

Q=B+C did I know? Yes, it is an observation I have made before. Does it fit here that rationality + denial (or its negation) = irrationality. I think it does. — introbert

So this thread is just a guise for parroting Ayn Rand. Got it. — Mikie