Konkvistador comments on Rationality Quotes November 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 09 November 2011 12:05:44AM 13 points [-]

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

--Thomas Sowell

Comment author: MixedNuts 09 November 2011 05:05:37PM -2 points [-]

Is idealism a different state of mind? Surely brain circuitry doesn't change when considering true ideas.