Abstract Quote by George Lakoff

“As cognitive scientists have emphasized in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“psychologists call embodied cognition—the hypothesis that bodily perceptions, like touch, strongly influence how we think.”

— David DiSalvo

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

— Teresa de Lauretis

“embodied cognition—the hypothesis that bodily perceptions, like touch, strongly influence how we think.”

— David DiSalvo

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

— James Geary

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

— George Lakoff

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

— George Lakoff

“Psychologists and neuroscientists have coined the phrase, “embodied cognition.” When your brain directs your body to do something, your body, in a sense, directs…

— Bill Nye

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

— Swami Vivekananda

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

— Pierre Bourdieu

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

— I. A. Richards