I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.
Metaphor & Analogy Quotes (177 Quotes)
To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction -- every kind of evidence in the logician's list -- have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.
A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Anne could not immediately fall into a quotation again. The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by - unless some tender sonnet, fraught with the apt analogy of the declining year, with declining happiness, and the images of youth and hope, and spring, all gone together, blessed her memory.
Everything in life is a metaphor.
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.
It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
I'm not surprised that they would attempt to create a false veneer of legitimacy by promoting their cause through the mouths of Jews and Israelis. It doesn't matter who is speaking what matters is the content of the message, and that message of an analogy between South African apartheid and Zionism is false and extreme.
I like to use a football analogy. A sports reporter can write in depth and give you a good idea of the game, but you really don't get it until you play it.
I think the 'Star Wars' analogy is a very good one. It's beyond time and yet it's a sort of historical time. And also there are the levels of how elaborately he's constructed this world, and how consistent he remained with the cosmology he created, over such a long time -- and at the end to have everything be believable within the world of that novel.
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence.... The Sixth Patriarch called it 'essence of Mind'... Here the Third Patriarch calls it 'timeless Self-essence.' Bankei called it 'unborn Buddha-mind.' They all refer to the same thing Buddha-nature, true self. This essence is not born and can never die. It exists eternally. Some call it energy others call it spirit. But what is it No one knows. Any concept we have of what it is can only be an analogy....
To use a poker analogy, if the deck is a bit stacked against you, spread the deck on the table and let everyone see the cards,
In my mind, he was guilty of no error he was chargeable with no exaggeration he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.
I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.
Some mistakenly misread the mercy and graciousness of God. For instance, some partial believers are always scolding God, or disregarding Him, because of the observable and lamentable consequences of our misuse of God's gift to us of moral agency. It is as if a teenage son, given his first car, promptly had an accident with resulting pain, suffering, and expense, and the errant son then railed at his father for permitting the suffering resulting from the son's misuse of the gift of the automobile. Granted, in defense of the analogy, mortal parents ought not to give youngsters automobiles too soon, and then only when they have provided wise counsel, driver training, and so on. But there still comes a time when, if they are ever to drive alone, trained teenagers must be left alone at the wheel. The principle is the same with us in the second estate.
George Orwell's advice from 1946 is still worth following Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print'.
Metaphor is embodied in language.
You could use the analogy that tonight was what the doctor ordered. The outcome, the game itself, was like a B-12 shot. We're feeling better.
We are now part of a bass community. You came here today by yourself, now you're part of a family, a network. The bass circle works as a metaphor for that.
The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
Often you used the name of your home town as a metaphor for your 1992 presidential campaign, 'The man from Hope. Well, I am sure that many Katrina-displaced families now homeless, or huddling with friends or relatives or in shacks wish that you would give them some hope.
At this stage let us not entertain ourselves with the analogy of population transfer between Turkey and Greece there were different conditions there.
We used beach access as a metaphor for this issue. People for the most part can stroll around and use the beach. We think the preserves should have the same thing.
But it has not been easy, ... It has been three yards and a cloud of dust, to use a football analogy, as opposed to a 40-yard touchdown pass.
I just like to use the football analogy. I'm the head coach and my job is to direct the team down the field and throughout the game. But Vern and Todd are the star quarterback and the star defensive player. And Tracy is the all-conference player and my directors are the all-conference players. So it's very much a team-oriented thing. But yes, ultimately I'm the guy who has to decide what we cover and when.
The reformers' preferred metaphor is leveling the playing field. They should listen to the logic of their language fields are leveled by bulldozers.
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.
As a lamp in a spot sheltered from the wind does not flicker, this simile is used for the subdued mind of a yogi practicing meditation on Brahman.
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.
A good analogy would be that I don't know any customer who wants their vehicle built in their driveway and rained on for nine months before they get a chance to sit in it. Moisture is the largest enemy of construction. Once moisture gets into the material, it starts to shrink and mold even before it goes to production.
Sun is still a show-me stock. To use a baseball analogy, they just got a base hit in the top of the first inning. It's too early to say Sun is recovering.
This is a very powerful tool, potentially with a bidirectional metaphor. It's indexing all this stuff on your desktop and doing something on the Web. Who's to say that's not a potential breach
It's really about spirituality. Gardening is a metaphor.
To use an unfortunate metaphor, Iraq is a roadside bomb in American politics.
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin
I don't think Sears happened as quickly as Lucent, peak to trough. But it's a valid analogy.
I would make the analogy that if my son or daughter had legal problems, I would try to get the best representation possible, and that's the way universities view these firms.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
It was a chance to do a film reflecting our phobias today, our fear of terrorism or disaster, like 9-11 or whatever nature can do to us. A natural disaster like this is sort of a metaphor for the impossible and most disastrous thing you can imagine, and what would we do when it hits
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it God does not change it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good not sorrow, but joy not hate, but love.
We're still continuing the research on that new language. This isn't the culmination of that new shape and design metaphor, but it's an interesting side project.
We planned for weeks and weeks on this. If you want to use a sports metaphor, you'd say we left it all on the field.
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.
Look at the auto industry. Do people fault Jaguar for selling fewer cars than Dodge ... Opera in some ways is a Cadillac browser. You have a lot of extra features built in. The volume might be with the Caravans and the SUVs, but that doesn't mean there isn't money to be made on the other vehicles. Of course, the analogy here is with Web browsers.