Metaphor Quotes
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life
The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.
Training for me is a metaphor for life, period. The dedication, the determination, the desire, the work ethic, the great successes and the great failures - I take that into life.
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.
I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.
It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.
It's a wonder you don't see the zebra being trotted out as a metaphor for racial harmony more often.
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.
I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.
You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.
Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything.
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.
It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.
Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we are metaphors and not ourselves . . .
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
