Quotes About Metaphor

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

Philosophy is surgery; surgery is philosophy.

For her, the message from Romme, the love letter's message, was: Cut off your left breast, that rustling bag of insects, because if you don't, those insects will spread their insect religion to your entire body.

the Principle of Mediocrity opposes the pre-Enlightenment arrogance of believing ourselves significant in the world; the Spaceship Earth metaphor opposes the Enlightenment arrogance of aspiring to control the world.

You perceive and remember that to which you can relate. When you observe something aberrant, your tendency is to build a metaphor to explain what you didn't understand.

Chuang Tzu had long ago written words that now expressed Jung's predicament: My dependence is like that of the snake on his skin. How can I tell why I do this, or why I do that?56

Chinese alchemy parallels European alchemy in postulating the change from watery lead (nigredo) to fiery heart (rubedo) and then to pure white (albedo) or gold (also known as the Philosopher's Stone).22 Understandably, in ancient Greece, a "similar archetypal concept of a perfect being is that of Platonic man, round on all sides and uniting within himself the two sexes."23

the physical structure of the Songhay village … consists of series of open spaces, each encircled by a cluster of thatched houses, which are interconnected by a labyrinth of lanes and narrow paths … as in many African societies, the Songhay apply metaphors of pathways to social relationships. For example, the reason for giving a gift to an in-law may be expressed as: "So that the path between us does not die".

Experiements that have been devised to inflict even mild social pain (like exclusion form a group task or betrayal by a partner in a gambling game) have demonstrated significant activation of the sinula and the anterior cingulate cortex. Emotional pain isn't just a metaphor: In terms of brain activation, it partially overlaps with physical pain.

Only animals have rognons—humans have reins. And

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

In God's mill even chaff becomes flour.

In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

God is like a shitty girlfriend.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes The god inside the car

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.