George Lakoff Quotes

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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…
• You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
• 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…
• 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…
• Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
• 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…
• For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
• We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.
• If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.
• 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…
• 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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