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Metaphors We Live By Quotes by George Lakoff
George Lakoff. He has a great seminal work from the 1980s called Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things.”
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
A metaphor is formed when two aspects of the world become linked together in a meaningful way. For example, we talk of a stormy meeting. We take the turmoil and chaos of a storm and make correspondences with the turmoil and chaos of a conflicted meeting.
Victor MacGill • Unravelling the Myth/Metaphor Layer in Causal Layered Analysis
Favored metaphors change over time, but—and this is less often appreciated—that does not simply mean that one supplants the other. The concept of “vitalism” might be traced back to the Aristotelian soul and is generally regarded as obsolete in biology today, but in fact we’ll see that it still survives in cryptic forms, most particularly in the way
... See morePhilip Ball • How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Any time we try to explain life, it’s nothing but a painting. It’s just thought. Concepts. Utter abstractions. These things will never satisfy our hunger.