Quotes About Metaphor

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

I look at you and wham, I'm head over heals. I guess that love is like a banana peel.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

There is a terrible reptilian predator, metaphorically speaking, pursuing you all the time, just like the crocodile with the ticktock of time emanating from the clock he swallowed chasing the tyrannical coward Captain Hook.

Decía que la vida era igual que una película, pero sin Rita Hayworth.

Tu está tão bonita, tu nem sabe… Tu parece uma cebola, carnuda e sumarenta, boa de morder… Quem tem razão é o salafra do Vivaldo… Bota cada olho em teu pandeiro, aquele fístula…

Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

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

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.

Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [...] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being.

The dragon sickness is a euphemism for the bourgeois materialism which is rife in our consumerist culture. Smaug's fury at the loss of a single insignificant and practically useless trinket serves as a metaphor for modern man and his mania for possessing trash that he doesn't need.

Dicen que el cuerpo es como el armario donde se guarda el alma. Está bien. Sin embargo, a veces, el alma es tan grande que el cuerpo, como grano de anís, se guarda en el alma.

The apple had fallen right next to the crazy tree.

If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the forest fleer and the partisan:this distinction is not qualitative but essential in nature. The anarch is closer to Being. The partisan moves within the social or national party structure, the anarch is outside of it. Of course, the anarch cannot elude the party structure, since he lives in society.

Dejando de lado la metáfora, pienso que la filosofía de los antiguos griegos nos atrae hoy porque nunca antes o desde entonces, en ningún lugar del mundo, se ha establecido nada parecido a su altamente avanzado y articulado sistema de conocimiento y especulación sin la fatídica división que nos ha estorbado durante siglos y que ha llegado a hacerse insufrible en nuestros días.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagine it as water, with only blameless gravity participating in the accumulation of wealth.

Observing that we have waged wars on poverty and drugs as well as cancer, Susan Sontag writes, "Abuse of the military metaphor may be inevitable in

Attitudes toward the state easily translate into attitudes toward vaccination, in part because the body is such a ready metaphor for the nation.