Plato pictured your soul as a charioteer driving one noble horse and one wild one

In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul as a charioteer steering two winged horses: one obedient and driven by honor, the other unruly and driven by appetite. Reason's task isn't to kill the wild horse but to master it well enough that the chariot can still climb toward truth. It's one of philosophy's oldest pictures of a divided, not unified, self.

— Plato, Phaedrus — c. 370 BC, the "Chariot Allegory," 246a-254e
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