The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
2007-11-21 07:07:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Same as Camille Claudel, Goxy... they're just now finding out...
2007-11-21 07:54:41 · update #1
I couldn't agree more. And I do admire Einstein as one of the most inquisitive and intuitive minds humanity ever had. My problem is understanding why he didn't reflect that in his private life? It has always bugged me how a man can be so rational in his real, personal life and so creative in his professional one? Einstein had the support and love of one of the most gifted women scientists of the time, his wife Mileva Maric, whose contribution to his work goes from 'a lot' to 'some' and is controversial to say the least. But Mileva made the classic mistake women make by focusing on her husband's career and neglected her own, which would have and could have been a brilliant one. Why he deserted both her and their children, and remarried a more desirable and pleasing one to his Jewish background, I could never understand. His selfish conduct following the desertion deserves no comment.
Now I may be the one having issues here, who knows, but the fact remains I don't think of him as fondly knowing the rational things in his life. Perhaps he himself had at that time forgotten the gift.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/einsteinswife/
2007-11-21 07:29:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 0⤋
Topcat, I agree, but I believe a mind has to be both intuitive and rational. I try to be like this. Perhaps such a combination will not create an extraordinary genius, but I think it is able to create results, without being just a "computer".
Goxy, I agree with you too. As for Camille Claudel, if you are referring to her being overshadowed by Rodin, it is true, but we are not "just finding her out". I have cherished Camille Claudel all my life, because I have known about her even before I knew Rodin's work.
2007-11-22 00:56:44 · answer #2 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I disagree with that...
Here's rationalizing it..
A Gift is something that is given, "intuition" isn't given, it's human nature.
Rationalization is something acquired throughout our lives, THIS would be more a "Gift" if anything.
I say this because I wasn't always the smartest in school or on tests, but my "street smarts" (intuition) is what got me here today, and now as an adult, I can rationalize between one thing and the other.
It's like how Adam and Eve were, "intuition" was about survival... and then rationalizing came next... this in "essence" is "choice". Once you know what one thing is, can you then move to the next. BUT only by instinct and intuition, can you believe that something "is" what it "is"... rationalizing has limits because of what society has "labeled" something to be.. such as "sin". What IS sin... it's what we make it.
I have more teachings on faith
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/oceanremix
or
http://geocities.com/oceanremix/linesoftruth.html
2007-11-21 15:29:00 · answer #3 · answered by oceanremix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
agree. it's a clever way of saying that humanity's thinking mechanism and intellect are lower forms than the inherent natural intelligence that exists in every human organism and that culture/society has built itself on the symbolic instead of the essence.
It's pretty apparent in your own experience isn't it? It feels completely natural to yawn and stretch when you wake up (simplistic examples of your body's natural intelligence at work) but there are daily examples of rationalizations for unnatural efforts.
2007-11-21 15:56:29 · answer #4 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree.
Why? Well that depends on what one considers *rational* doesn't it?
The gift as well - what one considers the gift.
For me it is like the 3rd eye or listening to what *your gut* is telling you - something may *sound rational* - but deep down inside of you, you know the truth.
2007-11-21 15:35:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I disagree - the intuitive is useless without the rational.
2007-11-21 15:21:52 · answer #6 · answered by James Bond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who is the we that created the society?
2007-11-21 15:14:19 · answer #7 · answered by bagel lover 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋