Metaphors We Live By Quotes by George Lakoff

Metaphors “reflect an ability of the human mind to readily connect abstract ideas with concrete scenarios,” he wrote in an academic paper in 2010 titled “The Cognitive Niche.” Metaphors can be considered expressions of human frames. They reflect causal relationships that capture a concrete situation and can be abstracted to apply to other domains.

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