George Lakoff

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual…

— George Lakoff

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

— George Lakoff

“This is how reason really works: through framing, metaphors, emotion, narratives, and imagery.”

— George Lakoff

If you're a progressive, you can find lots of people who call themselves conservatives, but who agree with you on lots of…

— George Lakoff

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their…

— George Lakoff

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as…

— George Lakoff

“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part…

— George Lakoff

Barack Obama understands what Ronald Reagan learned, which is that people vote not on the basis of issues and policy details, but…

— George Lakoff

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

— George Lakoff

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

— George Lakoff

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

— George Lakoff

“If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all…

— George Lakoff

“The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world…

— George Lakoff

One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative,…

— George Lakoff

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on…

— George Lakoff

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

— George Lakoff

“Another example of how a metaphor can create new meaning for us came about by accident. An Iranian student, shortly after his…

— George Lakoff

You see Bill Clinton, and you say: Oh, this guy cares about me. Hillary Clinton isn't the same way. You see her,…

— George Lakoff

Conservatives say human beings are people who are primarily concerned with self-interest, and that's what they should be concerned with - self-interest…

— George Lakoff

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of…

— George Lakoff

For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this…

— George Lakoff

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

— George Lakoff

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

— George Lakoff

In all aspects of life... we define our reality in terms of metaphors and then proceed to act on the basis of…

— George Lakoff