Lakoff and Johnson present over 58 different metaphors with a series of examples.

The hope is to convincing you to make the time for reading this short volume. After taking a few flights to finish the book, I wanted to take a moment to provide a mini-review. I found the book incredibly insightful, and in large agreement with many of my recent thoughts on the philosophies of mind and science. … Since communication is based on the same conceptual system that we use in thinking and actiong, language is an important source of evidence for what that system is like. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities. … Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around the world, and how we relate to others. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature. For them, metaphors are not just aspects of speech but windows into our mind and conceptual system:

The authors spend the first part of the book giving a very convincing argument that “even our deepest and most abiding concepts - time, events, causation, morality, and mind itself - are understood and reasoned about via multiple metaphors.” These conceptual metaphors structure our reality, and are fundamentally grounded in our sensory-motor experience. It is structured around the thought that “etaphor is one of our most important tools for trying to comprehend partially what cannot be comprehended totally”. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Metaphors we live by is a classic, that has had a huge influence on parts of linguistics and cognitive science, and some influence - although less so, in my opinion - on philosophy.

Lakoff and johnson metaphors