
“Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.”
Source: Ruby
Caballito negro.
¿Dónde llevas tu jinete muerto?
" Canción de Jinete, 1860 http://www.poesia-inter.net/fglc0401.htm" from Canciones (1927)
Caballito negro. ¿Dónde llevas tu jinete muerto?
“Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.”
Source: Ruby
“Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.”
De Libero Arbitrio (388 - 395)
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). p. 365.
Quotes from secondary sources
“One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse.”
The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31)
1930s, "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis" https://books.google.com/books/about/New_Introductory_Lectures_on_Psycho_anal.html?id=hIqaep1qKRYC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false (1933)
Context: One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.
“A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.”
Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great