...[P]hilosophical theories are structured by conceptual metaphors that constrain which inferences can be drawn within that philosophical theory. The (typically unconscious) conceptual metaphors that are constitutive of a philosophical theory have th...
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
How can I begin to tell you how much I miss you without using those three common words that can't even start to express the magnitude nor the depth of my emotions. How can I write in my own blood while wanting to revert its color. The color of blood ...
Everything's a bad metaphor for sex.
The earth is buzzing with metaphor
The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.
The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
My fans have always loved my metaphors.
We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.
For better of for worse the church in the West bought modernity's claims. We were baptized in its story (even though it said it did not have one) and accepted its categories and definitions. But somewhere along the way we also began to believe that t...
You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that -- it's all very amusing to talk about up to the age of twenty-two, but not after that. Then one ought to be giving one's mind to having fun without catching the pox, arranging one's life ...
What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical...
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
Everything in life is a metaphor for everything in life." Bonnie Marlewski-Probert
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
It's a mind, it works by metaphor.
Language is memory and metaphor.
I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.
