Limbic System Quotes

“Unlike most other language — which is stored in cerebral cortex, the brain’s center for higher learning — curse words are stored in the limbic system, our most basic, lizard brain level.”
― Chelsea G. Summers

“I function as an asterisk in the limbic system.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“When you say to someone “follow your heart”, it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system. So, the metaphoric heart we always boast about while giving advice to our friends, is actually not anywhere near the biological organ known as heart. Rather it too, like all other elements of the human mind exists only in the brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?

“It has been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn’t made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker

“By nature, that mind is easily fooled by supernatural mysticism. It is extremely gullible. And no matter how much we the civilized human beings advance in the fields of modern sciences, there is always a part of us, that tries to allure us with magical nonsense, because that nonsense has been with us since the birth of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker

“Now you know that the fascinating phenomenon of love has nothing to do with the supernatural entity known as Cupid, but everything to do with neurochemistry. Likewise, divinity is a cerebral creation, not a supernatural one. And it has been long since thinking humanity has learnt that love is a majestic creation of the brain, yet that knowledge hasn’t made love be deemed any less glorious. Then why should it threaten the religious believer to learn that divinity as well is a natural creation of the brain!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurons of Jesus: Mind of A Teacher, Spouse & Thinker

“Do dogs feel for humans something akin to religious ecstasy? What other strong or subtle emotions are felt by animals that do not communicate with us?”
― Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“p 16 ...although our limbic system [eg. attention, fear, rage....] functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when our emotional "buttons" are pushed, we retain the ability to react to incoming stimulation as though we were a two-year-old, even when we are adults.”
― Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

“Note that these days many scientists dislike the phrase "limbic system." This is because no one really knows which parts of the brain this term refers to. The brain areas included in this system have changed over the years, and today many use the term to mean brain areas that have something to do with emotion. Still, it's a useful shorthand.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Fear and Love are the two emotional pillars of survival.”
― Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?