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George Lakoff has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
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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…
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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,…
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Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
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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…
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For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
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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…
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If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.
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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…
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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…
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
— Hannah Arendt
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Perception is reality.
— Lee Atwater
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We live on the leash of our senses.
— Diane Ackerman
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All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue.
— Konrad Adenauer
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If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
— Ray Bradbury
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The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
— Anton Chekhov
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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense…
— Maya Angelou
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Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between…
— Carl Rogers
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Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of…
— Richard Shusterman
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I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to…
— Mitch Hedberg
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The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and…
— Richard Shusterman
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