Metaphorical Quotes
Metaphorical Quote of the day
Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples.
The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.
And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'
Creativity is the art that can give rise to visionary metaphorical relationships, as opposed to purely psy-chological ones.
I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.
Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.
Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.
If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.
The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.
The musical mystery is: How do you marry tuned percussion and voice? On a metaphorical level, everything that's really important - like the clouds, the sky and the earth - is a giant mystery.
Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.
The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.
All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.
At the millennium we partied like it was 1999. And then we had a 10 year bathtub tequila hangover, man. Just hugging the metaphorical toilet on a daily basis.
Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.
A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.
I think that was E.T.'s central appeal, personally. E.T. is this metaphorical journey, this strange Odysseus from another world, who just wants to go home. Obviously, home must've been better!
My favorite cut is probably "Drink of Choice," and it was done by Bryan Michael Cox, it's a metaphorical type song, about a woman being a drink. I'll let your mind wander with that one.
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.
I’ve never had a rat, never chased one. I chase my own tail and that’s enough. I must now make plans for the day I catch it.
Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light.
The magic of a tree is metaphorical. It celebrates its place. I brings comfort and beauty. Trees celebrate life.
To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous
Trees are metaphorical. Their magic is that they bring beauty, comfort, and peace to the land. They celebrate life itself.
