60 Quotes by 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 both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities.

We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?

You can’t understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you – the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.