Date: 2006

"The metaphor I use when I lecture on Freud is to think of the mind as a horse and buggy (a Victorian chariot) in which the driver (the ego) struggles frantically to control a hungry, lustful, and disobedient horse (the id) while the driver's father (the superego) sits in the back seat lecturing ...

— Haidt, Jonathan

Date: 2006

"When people looked for metaphors, they saw the mind as the driver of a car, or as a program running on a computer."

— Haidt, Jonathan

Date: 2006

"This gut brain is like a regional administrative center that handles stuff the head brain does not need to bother with."

— Haidt, Jonathan

Date: 2006

"Just as a military leader might blow up a bridge to prevent an enemy from crossing it, Bogen wanted to sever the corpus callosum to prevent the seizures from spreading."

— Haidt, Jonathan

Date: 2006

"The brain started off with just three rooms, or clumps of neurons: a hindbrain (connected to the spinal column), a midbrain, and a forebrain (connected to the sensory organs at the front of the animal)."

— Haidt, Jonathan

Date: 2006

"Whichever end of that range you favor, language, reasoning, and conscious planning arrived in the most recent eye-blink of evolution. They are like new software, Rider version 1.0."

— Haidt, Jonathan

Date: December 23, 2006

"Twentieth-century intellectuals can be defined by two extremes: the Paul Valéry types who made their discoveries in the abstract laboratory of their minds and the Graham Greene and Ernest Hemingway types who made their discoveries while drunk in brothels in countries where the president had just...

— Moroney, Robin

Date: 2006

"While the amygdala's role as a sentinel and trigger for distress is old news to neuroscience, its social role, as part of the brain's system for emotional contagion, has been revealed only recently."

— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)

Date: 2006

"More generally, the amygdala acts as a radar for the brain, calling attention to whatever might be new, puzzling, or important to learn more about."

— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)

Date: 2007

"And at the same time, a censor somewhere in my brain was simplifying things for me, helping me to cope with the necessary."

— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)