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| 90fd689 | The authentic pragmatist realizes you can't get everything you think is right, but you can get much or most of it through negotiation. The authentic pragmatist sticks to his or her values and works to satisfy them maximally. The inauthentic pragmatist, on the other hand, is willing to depart from his or her true values for the sake of political gain. There | George Lakoff | ||
| 0db9c41 | If the facts don't fit one's worldview, one of several things can happen: * The fact may be changed to fit your worldview. * The fact may be ignored. * The fact may be rejected and possibly ridiculed. * Or the facts, if threatening to your worldview, may be attacked. All | George Lakoff | ||
| b096101 | 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 classica.. | correspondence embodied-mind embodied-realism meaning metaphor objectivity reason truth | George Lakoff | |
| b5923c1 | Discrimination is a denial of freedom. | freedom | George Lakoff | |
| 9d48352 | Women are human beings and have a right to control their own bodies. When that is denied, they are not free. | freedom human-beings rights women | George Lakoff | |
| a1a49da | The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be imagined but to be approached, exhorted, evaded, confronted, struggled with, and loved. Through metaphor, the vividness, intensity, and meaningfulness of ordinary experiences becomes the basis of a passionate spirituality. An ineffable God becomes vital through metaphor: The Supreme Being. The Prime Mover. The Creator. The A.. | cognitive-science embodied-mind god metaphor religion spirituality | George Lakoff | |
| 7d1e0ce | If you have cancer and you don't have health care, you are not free. You are probably going to suffer and die. If you are in a car accident and suffer multiple injuries and don't have health care, you are not free - you may be disabled for life, or die. Even if you break your leg, do not have access to health care, and cannot get it set, you are not free. You may never walk or run freely again. Ill health enslaves you. Disease enslaves you... | health-care | George Lakoff | |
| 498e14a | Consider just a few of the expressions that fall under the umbrella ARGUMENT IS WAR, collected by the linguist George Lakoff and the philosopher Mark Johnson. Your claims are indefensible. He attacked every weak point in my argument. His criticisms were right on target. I demolished his argument. I've never won an argument with her. You don't agree? Okay, shoot! If you use that strategy, he'll wipe you out. She shot down all of my arguments.. | Steven Pinker | ||
| 44c4c14 | When a political leader puts forth a policy or suggests how we should act, the implicit assumption is that the policy or action is right, not wrong. No political leader says, "Here's what you should do. Do it because it is wrong--pure evil, but do it." No political leader puts forth policies on the grounds that the policies don't matter. Political prescriptions are assumed to be right. The problem is that different political leaders have di.. | George Lakoff | ||
| 3411029 | Charles Fillmore has observed (in conversation) that English appears to have two contradictory organizations of time. In the first, the future is in front and the past is behind: In the weeks ahead of us . . . (future) That's all behind us now. (past) In the second, the future is behind and the past is in front: In the following weeks . . . (future) In the preceding weeks . . . (past) This appears to be a contrad.. | George Lakoff | ||
| 667b603 | At the highest level, there is the general Subject-Self metaphor, which conceptualizes a person as bifurcated. The exact nature of this bifurcation is specified more precisely one level down, where there are five specific instances of the metaphor. These five special cases of the basic Subject-Self metaphor are grounded in four types of everyday experience: (1) manipulating objects, (2) being located in space, (3) entering into social relat.. | George Lakoff | ||
| 915cc09 | Our categories arise from the fact that we are neural beings, from the nature of our bodily capacities, from our experience interacting in the world, and from our evolved capacity for basic-level categorization - a level at which we optimally interact with the world. Evolution has not required us to be as accurate above and below the basic level as at the basic level, and so we are not. | conceptualization human-knowledge limits-of-knowledge | George Lakoff | |
| c06d9a4 | Opponents of abortion use the word baby to refer to the cluster of cells, the embryo, and the fetus alike. The very choice of the word baby imposes the idea of an independently existing human being. Whereas cluster of cells, embryo, and fetus keep discussion in the medical domain, baby moves the discussion to the moral domain. The issue of the morality of abortion is settled once the words are chosen. The purposeful removal of a cell group .. | George Lakoff | ||
| 3187978 | How can conservatives love their country, love their system of government, love the founders of their government, but resent and often hate the government itself? | George Lakoff | ||
| 4e77d74 | We can now suggest an answer to the questions asked above. If conservatism is based on Strict Father morality, conservatives have the general metaphors of the Moral Order in their conceptual systems, with at least a couple of clauses, namely, God above human beings; human beings above animals and the natural world; adults above children; men above women. The Moral Order hierarchy used to have all the bigoted clauses in it; now it has many o.. | George Lakoff | ||
| 9367dc8 | A serious appreciation of cognitive science requires us to rethink philosophy from the beginning, in a way that would put it more in touch with the reality of how we think. ... Unless we know our cognitive unconscious fully and intimately, we can neither know ourselves nor truly understand the basis of our moral judgments, our conscious deliberations, and our philosophy. | philosophy | George Lakoff | |
| 9fa1bd9 | If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind. | human-nature philosophy science-of-mind self-knowledge | George Lakoff | |
| cbff537 | A life lived in loneliness is no life at all." -"Mail-Order Annie" | Gary A. Braunbeck | ||
| 14c0baa | The war in the poem between the warmth of Keatsian language and the chill of metaphysical analysis means that Stevens has not achieved a style that can embrace both the physical pine and the metaphysical pine. | Helen Vendler | ||
| 3596d93 | Another long pull of the sawteeth across the pink folds of his brain, and Teddy had to bite down against a scream and he heard Rachel's screams in there too with the fire and he saw her looking into his eyes and felt her breath on his lips and felt her face in his hands as his thumbs caressed her temples and that fucking saw went back and forth through his head-- don'ttakethosefuckingpills | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 722f5c2 | I open up--" Cawley again: "Using your keys, correct, Mr. Ganton?" Ganton nodded at Cawley, looked back at his knees. "I use my keys, yeah, 'cause the door's locked." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| bf4ae8b | Cawley probably wasn't used to questions that continued after he'd shown displeasure with them, so they gave him a minute to catch his breath. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 21c8f0b | Was music once a proof of God's existence? As long as it admits things beyond measure, That supposition stands. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 9b544a9 | A landscape fossilized, It's stone-wall patternings Repeated before our eyes In the stone walls of Mayo. Before I turned to go He talked about persistence, A congruence of lives, How, stubbed and cleared of stones, His home accrued growth rings Of iron, flint and bronze - "Belderg" | ireland | Seamus Heaney | |
| 06b36c2 | My poor scapegoat, I almost love you but would have cast, I know, the stones of silence. I am the artful voyeur of your brain's exposed and darkened combs, your muscles' webbing and all your numbered bones: I who have stood dumb when your betraying sisters, cauled in tar, wept by the railings, who would connive in civilized outrage yet understand the exact and tribal, intimate revenge. -"Punishment" | i-r-a northern-ireland | Seamus Heaney | |
| 2faba47 | Diodorus Siculus confessed His gradual ease among the likes of this: Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible Beheaded girl, outstaring axe And beatification, outstaring What had begun to feel like reverence. -"Strange Fruit" | lynching northern-ireland | Seamus Heaney | |
| e09809f | I step through origins like a dog turning its memories of wilderness on the kitchen mat: the bog floor shakes, water cheeps and lisps as I walk down rushes and heather. I love this turf-face, it's black incisions, the cooped secrets of process and ritual: -"Kinship" | ireland | Seamus Heaney | |
| 1e6ed87 | This morning from a dewy motorway I saw the new camp for the internees: A bomb had left a crater of fresh clay In the roadside, and over in the trees Machine-gun posts defined a real stockade. There was that white mist you get on a low ground And it was deja-vu, some film made Of Stalag 17, a bad dream with no sound. Is there a life before death? That's chalked up In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, Coherent miseries, a bite and sup: we h.. | the-troubles | Seamus Heaney | |
| 77d6c0a | The diamond absolutes. I am neither internee nor informer; An inner emigre, grown long-haired And thoughtful; a wood-kerne Escaped from the massacre, Taking protective colouring From bole and bark, feeling Every wind that blows; Who, blowing up these sparks For their meagre heat, have missed The once-in-a-lifetime portent, The comet's pulsing tose. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 7d8d975 | I was six when I first saw kittens drown. Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits', Into a bucket; a frail metal sound, Soft paws scraping like mad. But their tiny din Was soon soused. They were slung on the snout Of the pump and the water pumped in. 'Sure isn't it better for them now?' Dan said. Like wet gloves they bobbed and shone till he sluiced Them out on the dunghill, glossy and dead. Suddenly frightened, for day.. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 320d4cc | Strange Fruit Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd. Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth. They unswaddled the wet fern of her hair And made an exhibition of its coil, Let the air at her leathery beauty. Pash of tallow, perishable treasure: Her broken nose is dark as a turf clod, Her eyeholes blank as pools in the old workings. Diodorus Siculus confessed His gradual ease with the likes of this: Murdered, forgotten, name.. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 235fca4 | Human beings suffer. They torture one another They get hurt and they get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that a farther shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And .. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 64279f6 | But every now and then, just weighing in is what it must come down to, and without any self-exculpation or self-pity. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 1806239 | It is a great wonder How Almighty God in his magnificence Favors our race with rank and scope And the gift of wisdom; His sway is wide. Sometimes He allows the mind of a man Of distinguished birth to follow its bent, Grants him fulfillment and felicity on earth And forts to command in his own country. He permits him to lord it in many lands Until the man in his unthinkingness Forgets that it will ever end for him. He indulges his desires; .. | life-and-death | Seamus Heaney | |
| 0cf0edd | And did I seek the Kingdom? Will the Kingdom Come? The idea of it there, Behind its scrim since font and fontanel, Breaks like light or water, Like giddiness I felt at the old story Of how he'd turn away from the motif, Spread his legs, bend low, then look between them For the mystery of the hard and fast To be unveiled, his inverted face contorting. Like an arse-kisser's in some vision of the damned Until he'd straighten, turn back, coc.. | Seamus Heaney | ||
| 2e216b2 | It has taken almost half my life away from Ireland for me to truly feel what home really is, and it is not what I was expecting. In the end it was not a place, or a past, or any sort of single, dazzling epiphany. It was all the little things. Cold butter spread thick on sweet wheaten bread or hot, subsiding potatoes; the scent of wet, black soil; a bushy spine of grass on a one-track road; wife iron gates leading to high beech corridors; th.. | home identity ireland | Trish Deseine | |
| 1a79ae1 | Win for me. Win for my kids. Win for my marriage so I can carry your winning back to the car with me and sit in the glow of it with my family as we drive back toward our otherwise winless lives. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 2a9d8bb | Si elle partage vos sentiments? Quelle difference cela fait-il? Achetez-la, quoi qu'il en soit! | David Gemmell | ||
| 06ddce3 | I know the difference between heroes and cowards. You are a hero. You believe me?' 'I don't feel like a hero,' Xander admitted. Odysseus tapped the cheekbone under his right eye. 'This eye is magical, Xander. It is never wrong. Now, I ask again, do you believe me?' 'Yes. Yes, of course.' 'Then tell me what you are.' 'I am a hero.' 'Good. When doubt comes, as it always does, remember those words. Say them to yourself. And I will see you agai.. | David Gemmell | ||
| f064990 | Love was what mattered. Love of one for one. The touching of hands, the touching of hearts. The warmth of belonging, the joy of sharing. There would always be tyrants. Man seemed incapable of existing without them. For without tyrants there would be no heroes. And man could not live without heroes. Renya | David Gemmell | ||
| bb957fd | I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks - Surely it is only with friends that one can be at peace. - It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything. | David Gemmell | ||
| e9875f6 | Less of a Galahad than a Lancelot, thought Archer. A flawed knight in a flawed world, unstable yet unyielding. | David Gemmell | ||
| 7b7b249 | A warrior has only one true friend. Only one man he can rely on. Himself. So he feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks skill, he practises. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul. Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them. You are strong and you are bra.. | David Gemmell | ||
| c91cebb | Jon Shannow, the King of Kings has spoken the words of your death. I am Rhodaeul the Hunter. Do you have anything to say before you die?' 'No,' said Shannow, palming his gun and blasting Rhodaeul from the saddle. The Atlantean hit the ground hard, a hammering pain in his chest; he tried to draw his pistol, but Shannow rode forward and fired a second shot that smashed his skull. | David Gemmell |