60 Quotes by George Lakoff

Women are human beings and have a right to control their own bodies. When that is denied, they are not free.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies. Because a vast range of our concepts are metaphorical, meaning is not entirely literal and the classical correspondence theory of truth is false.

Truth must be framed effectively to be seen at all.

What is taxation? Taxation is what you pay to live in a civilized society- what you pay to have democracy and opportunity.

What have been called “women’s issues” are freedom issues. Body control. The right of human beings to control their own bodies is a freedom issue. Respect. The right of human beings to be treated institutionally with respect as a human being is a freedom issue.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

When you think you just lack words, what you really lack are ideas. Ideas come in the form of frames. When the frames are there, the words come readily.