Lakoff Quotes: top 33 famous quotes about Lakoff

Lakoff Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Lakoff quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

This is Life, not Heaven you don't have to be perfect — Gia Carangi

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism. — George Lakoff

Affirmative action is about fairness, for redressing widespread unfairness. Conservatives — George Lakoff

A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah's smile — Charles Spurgeon

This contrasts sharply with the progressive view that markets must respect human dignity and serve the common good while pursuing profit. — George Lakoff

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

Judgement is so often a thwarted, frustrated expression of envy. — Elizabeth Winder

Systemic causation must be taught if the effects of global warming are to be seriously understood. The — George Lakoff

Myth 7: Everyone Can Pull Himself or Herself Up by the Bootstraps. — George Lakoff

Language uses us as much as we use language. — Robin Lakoff

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

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind. — George Lakoff

Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. — George Lakoff

Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon. — Robin Lakoff

The main concern of the frame is that money be kept in the common wealth (or the hands of the government) in order to be used for the common good. HOW — George Lakoff

By Strict Father morality, harsh prison terms for criminals and life imprisonment for repeat offenders are the only moral options. — George Lakoff

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

I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness. — Charlotte Eriksson

The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. — George Lakoff

One can be both free and economically secure while leading a totally meaningless and empty existence. — George Lakoff

Isn't that just like a man. 450-fucking-years-old and he's still thinking with his balls! — Tanya Huff

The priority list is: 1. The Strength Group 2. Moral Self-Interest 3. Moral Nurturance It — George Lakoff

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

All language is political ... — Robin Lakoff

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff

The Strict Father model takes as background the view that life is difficult and that the world is fundamentally dangerous. — George Lakoff

In Nurturant Parent morality, the teenage girl is "in trouble," she needs help and deserves empathy (moral-action Category 2 - helping). — George Lakoff

The biology of empathy allows us to comprehend our connection to each other, to other living things, and to the physical world that supports life. — George Lakoff

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct. — George Lakoff

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

Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality. — George Lakoff

What is punishment and theft to conservatives is civic duty and fairness to liberals. There — 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. — George Lakoff