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… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus… — George Lakoff Copy Share
Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends. — George Lakoff Copy Share
“This is how reason really works: through framing, metaphors, emotion, narratives, and imagery.” — George Lakoff Copy Share
If you're a progressive, you can find lots of people who call themselves conservatives, but who agree with you on lots of things. There… — George Lakoff Copy Share
The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases... — George Lakoff Copy Share
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share
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 Lakoff Copy Share
“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part of our… — George Lakoff Copy Share
Barack Obama understands what Ronald Reagan learned, which is that people vote not on the basis of issues and policy details, but on the… — George Lakoff Copy Share
“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.” — George Lakoff Copy Share
Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct. — George Lakoff Copy Share
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff Copy Share
“If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need… — George Lakoff Copy Share
“The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports… — George Lakoff Copy Share
One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a… — George Lakoff Copy Share
