Quotes About Metaphor

A fish am I," cried Saffiro, "the earth is my ocean.

Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.

Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.

Mary is an apple. Whoever plucks her Nails his heart To the leafless tree.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

All of these concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. Indeed, language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication.

The lexicon of language, then, is a finite set of terms that by metaphor is able to stretch out over an infinite set of circumstances, even to creating new circumstances thereby.

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world…concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects.

What if I take you apart and turn you into a toaster oven, how would you like that tin can?

Black_Venus: Here it goes: Curious mosaic Continental drift Parabolic metaphor Elemental rift Time and transposition Conscious intermission Assertion? Desertion -- Black_Venus: That's all I have so far. You finish it. Me: How about "Spanish Inquisition.

De cuando en cuando me ocurre vomitar un conejito.

Porque en ese vacio vertiginoso las metaforas saltaban hacia el como arañas

en la tierra común donde las palabras y las caricias y las bocas los envolvían como la circunferencia al círculo, esas metáforas tranquilizadoras, esa vieja tristeza satisfecha de volver a ser el de siempre, de continuar, de mantenerse a flote contra viento y marea, contra el llamado y la caída.

París es una enorme metáfora.

Una de las esperanzas dejó en el suelo su pez de flauta —pues las esperanzas, como el Rey del Mar, están siempre asistidas por peces de flauta—

Puede ser que haya otro mundo dentro de éste, pero no lo encontraremos recortando su silueta en el tumulto fabuloso de los días y las vidas, no lo encontraremos ni en la atrofia ni en la hipertrofia. Ese mundo no existe, hay que crearlo como el fénix. Ese mundo existe en éste, pero como el agua existe en el oxígeno y el hidrógeno

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Yo soy como el ave cisne, que canta cuando se muere

Las lágrimas de San Lorenzo no son sólo una metáfora del tiempo. Son sobre todo la prueba de que la vida es apenas una luz en las tinieblas de un universo infinito, pero a la vez tan fugaz como los deseos del hombre.

We're clocks, Abelard. Nothing more.

What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age?

What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age? It

Weinberg, whom Oppenheimer had come to regard as one of his brightest students, observed that mathematical formulas were like temporary hand-holds for a rock-climber. Each hand-hold more or less dictates the position of the next hand-hold. "A record of that," Weinberg said, "is a record of a particular climb. It gives you very little of the shape of the rock.