Brain Quote by George Lakoff Download Open image “You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.” — George Lakoff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brain Century Century Brain Century Politics Eighteenth Century Firsts Politics Politics Eighteenth Twenties Understand Century
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old techniques, suspicion… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
“For those under the age of 45 it seemed that world events had finally contrived a meaningful test of their capacity for conscientious political thought. Many of my acquaintances, I realized, had passed the last decade or two in a state of intellectual and psychic yearning for such a moment — or, if they hadn’t, were able to quickly assemble… — Joseph O'Neill 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 to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do is point out where their interests lie, and they will… — George Lakoff Copy Share
I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind — the mind as machine and the mind as anti-machine, delighting in its powers of combination and transgression. They fail as well to appreciate the extend to which the relative presence of these two sides of the mind is influenced by the… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share
“We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa 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 Image
Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you — the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“This is how reason really works: through framing, metaphors, emotion, narratives, and imagery.” — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.” — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“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 Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
I prefer the word 'musician.' I'm a musician and a composer. I have a problem with the word 'artist.' I don't know if it's… — Stromae Copy Share Image
Thinking of sex provides enough mental stimulation to reduce risk of diseases that damage the brain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Without illusions. I love you because you are fallible and because your poor misguided testosterone-corrupted brain has you doing cartwheels trying not to be.… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
