Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.
Robert E. OrnsteinNew research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.
Robert E. OrnsteinWe're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.
Robert E. OrnsteinThis duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.
Robert E. Ornstein