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Date: 1773
"But if thou com'st with frown austere / To nurse the brood of care and fear; / To bid our sweetest passions die, / And leave us in their room a sigh; / Or if thine aspect stern have power / To wither each poor transient flower, / That cheers the pilgrimage of woe, / And dry the springs whence ho...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 1773
"Hail to pleasure's frolic train; / Hail to fancy's golden reign; / Festive mirth, and laughter wild, / Free and sportful as the child; / Hope with eager sparkling eyes, / And easy faith, and fond surprise: / Let these, in fairy colours drest, / Forever share my careless breast; / Then, tho' wise...
preview | full record— Barbauld, Anna Letitia [née Aikin] (1743-1825)
Date: 2002
"Your mind works like a spider building an intricate web."
preview | full record— Templeton, John, Sir (1912-2008)
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
