"We categorize as we do because we have……" — George Lakoff
"We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do."
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11 Quotes by George Lakoff
George Lakoff has 11 quotes on this site.
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Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption…
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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…
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Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For…
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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.…
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For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
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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…
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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…
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More Bodies Quotes
This quote is filed under Bodies Quotes,
one of 1,801 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
— George Berkeley
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
— Jim Bishop
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies.…
— Brandon Boyd
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