I gotta agree with you there. The heart/mind dichotomy is a great metaphor for painting a powerful and emotionally stirring image (ironic, emotion being used to damn emotion), but when it comes to actually thinking and solving problems, the heart/mind dichotomy is a counter-productive prism through which to view the world, and if taken to an extreme, can potentially act as an inhibitor to knowledge, rather than an enhancer of it. If we set aside metaphor, we realize that the heart is simply an organ which pumps blood, and is incapable of cognitive thought. Therefore, any and all uncertainty can only ever be a conflict of the mind with itself. Emotion and logic both have their origin in thought. Thus, to feel is not the opposite of thinking, but a form of thinking. Those who attempt to listen only to logic while totally shunning emotion are killing half their brain, and half of their humanity.

It isn't even possible to totally shut off emotion, anyway. All thought, whether emotional or logical, is simply a matter of frequency, and attempting to shut down the emotional frequencies typically only ever results in the suppression the finer and more delicate emotions, such as love, kindness, and generosity, while allowing the denser and more base emotions like hate and anger to take complete and total control. Most people here probably don't know this, but telling people to suppress their emotions and listen exclusively to logic is actually a tactic that's used by Islamic terrorist groups to make their jihadists more radical and more violent. And you know what? It works.

So forgive me, but this is one area of Ayn Rand's philosophy that is not just merely wrong – it is also dangerous.

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Quotes from Albert Einstein:

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of imagination has meant more to me than any talent for absorbing absolute knowledge."

"All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge. I believe in intuition and inspiration.... At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason."

"We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism."

"Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelation of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of man."

"Many people think that the progress of the human race is based on experiences of an empirical, critical nature, but I say that true knowledge is to be had only through a philosophy of deduction. For it is intuition that improves the world, not just following a trodden path of thought. Intuition makes us look at unrelated facts and then think about them until they can all be brought under one law. To look for related facts means holding onto what one has instead of searching for new facts. Intuition is the father of new knowledge, while empiricism is nothing but an accumulation of old knowledge. Intuition, not intellect, is the 'open sesame' of yourself."