...quotes several studies on the subject, all of which seem to indicate that there is a clear a conection between high creativity and higher incidence various metal disorders...Hi Pyrrho,
Do you have any theories as to why there might be a corellation between mental disorders and high creativity?
Also, in relation to a reply from you to Ivanhoe regarding 'truth' etc.
In my understanding truth is relative, subjective, far from absolute, and logic is not a pre-requisite of a 'truth'.
Warm regards,
Mark
Originally posted by ivanhoeHavent been on this site for long but was just looking around and saw these quotes - they make a good read.
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
This one in particular - it is as true now as when plato said it
In honor of Thomas Jefferson's birthday: " A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectively impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the volumes of ethics, and divinity, that were ever written."
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Robert Skipwith
"We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. "
Letter to William Roscoe