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Date: 1789
"Hope and fear are the two grand springs by which that curious machine, the human mind, is actuated; and to deprive Virtue of that support which she receives from their influence and operation, and to substitute in their room a sense of honour, or a love of moral beauty and order, is to betray th...
preview | full record— Belsham, William (1752-1827)
Date: 1838
"His books, his walks, his musing, morn and eve, / Gave such impressions as such minds receive"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 2006
"In this way something like a database is created that stores our preferences and dislikes."
preview | full record— Klein, Stefan (b. 1965)
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 ...
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— 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)."
preview | full record— 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."
preview | full record— Haidt, Jonathan
Date: Februrary 25, 2009
"He thinks that discourses are 'established conventions' and that language is a resource which constrains what can be said – as if words were ill-fitting clothes within which thoughts are confined."
preview | full record— Wootton, David
