"You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century……" — George Lakoff
"You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain."
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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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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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We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the…
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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 Brain Quotes
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It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want,…
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It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different,…
— Dido Armstrong
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you…
— Francis Bacon
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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences,…
— Roger Bacon
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Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you…
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One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
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The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
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I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless…
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