George Lakoff quotes
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“The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”
-- George LakoffSource : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.3, Basic Books
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“Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.”
-- George LakoffSource : "How to Frame Yourself: A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street" by George Lakoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.
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“The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases...”
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“Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”
-- George LakoffSource : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.3, University of Chicago Press
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“The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.”
-- George LakoffSource : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.5, University of Chicago Press
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“In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of the metaphors. We draw inferences, set goals, make commitments, and execute plans, all on the basis of how we in part structure our experience, consciously and unconsciously, by means of metaphor.”
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“We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?”
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“Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.”
-- George LakoffSource : George Lakoff (2006). “Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea”, p.56, Macmillan
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“Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object control is the basis of one of the five most fundamental metaphors for our inner life. To control objects, we must learn to control our bodies. We learn both forms of control together. Self-control and object control are inseparable experiences from earliest childhood. It is no surprise that we should have as a metaphor-a primary metaphor-Self Control is Object Control.”
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“If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.”
-- George LakoffSource : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.552, Basic Books
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“We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.”
-- George LakoffSource : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.18, Basic Books
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“For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.”
-- George LakoffSource : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books
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“For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.”
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“Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”
-- George LakoffSource : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.3, University of Chicago Press
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“Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains terror down on the Afghan infrastructure? We are supposedly fighting them because they immorally killed innocent civilians. That made them evil. If we do the same, are we any less immoral?”
-- George LakoffSource : "Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - The Essential Guide for Progressives". Book by George Lakoff, 2004.
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“You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.”
-- George LakoffSource : George Lakoff (2008). “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics”, p.10, Penguin
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“Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.”
-- George LakoffSource : "Why Liberals Lose". Interview with Katy Butler, katybutler.com. December 24, 2003.
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