M Quotes
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“Metaphor:
«La fidelidad ha de esgrimirse con cautela, cual cimitarra adherida a su escuela, y no es una espada cualquiera»
Answer:
La cita simboliza que la fidelidad no es algo trivial o común, sino más bien algo que debe manejarse con habilidad y respeto.”
Source: Horacio
“Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate and learn, discover and invent.”
“Metaphor makes us look at the world afresh, but it often does so by challenging our notions of the similarities that exist between things; how alike they are; and in what ways, in fact, they are irreconcilably unalike.”
Source: Metaphor
“Metaphor metaphorized—the double jump outside the convention—breaks the hold of the convention and enables us to become aware of the subjectivity of objects and the objectivity of subjective processes.”
“Metaphor:
«No desesperéis, sir Roberto, que en tierra yugada por la yunta, no rondan gusanos ni viles que ensucien las manos»
Answer:
El verso significa que no debe perder la esperanza, porque en la tierra que ha sido arada por la yunta (la pareja de bueyes unidos por el yugo) no hay gusanos ni cobardes que puedan manchar sus manos. La palabra yugada se refiere al espacio de tierra de labor que puede arar una yunta en un día, y también es una medida agraria que varía según las zonas.”
Source: El Barbero de Verona
“Metaphor:
«¿No sabéis que el que osa traspasar los arcanos umbrales de la temeridad ha de presenciar los más tributados espantos de la malignidad?»
Answer:
La cita es un recordatorio de que la temeridad puede ser una fuerza destructiva. Debemos ser conscientes de los peligros de la temeridad y actuar con cuidado para evitar caer en sus trampas.”
Source: Morpheus
“Metaphor:
«Oh, Diablo mío, ignoran los cuerdos que es preciso enloquecer para saborear los epicúreos placeres de la vida, de etéreas razones y austeridad a cebar las mentes tienden nuestros días»
Answer:
Sugiere que aquellos que se adhieren estrictamente a las normas de la cordura pueden estar perdiéndose de los verdaderos placeres de la vida.”
Source: La Rosa Inglesa
“Metaphor:
«Porque hasta un bosque que muda en suspiros por cada estrofa que enturbia enoja en quejidos»
Answer:
En este sentido, la cita puede entenderse como una reflexión sobre la conexión profunda entre el ser humano y la naturaleza, y cómo las emociones humanas pueden resonar y reverberar en el mundo natural.”
Source: Eduardo I Longshanks
“Metaphor shakes our bearings on the question of how we stand in relation to 'objective reality', and a metaphor inside a metaphor unfixes those bearings altogether; it makes us lose our direction-fix on the position of what is 'out there' in 'reality' and the position of our own consciousness of that.”
“Metaphor:
«Si las torpezas son por faltas de la edad, la quietud y la congoja hacen alarde de su rigurosa probidad, cual dulce alondra al despertar»
Answer:
La cita utiliza una metáfora para reflexionar sobre los errores y la inexperiencia de la juventud, considerados naturales debido a la falta de madurez. Con el tiempo, a medida que llega la quietud y la reflexión en la vida, estos errores se reinterpretan como una parte esencial del proceso de aprendizaje y crecimiento. La "quietud y la congoja" representan la serenidad y la capacidad de evaluar con honestidad el pasado, mientras que la imagen de la "alondra al despertar" añade un sentido de renacimiento, claridad y propósito en la vida que llega con la madurez.”
Source: Horacio
“Metaphor:
«Tan introducido estáis ya entre los quehaceres del maligno que habéis olvidado hasta de dónde venís, pues aquí os devoran en cuerpo y alma, cual cuervos que no siegan ni siembran, sin granero ni alfolí, pues son como lirios. Y ya veis cómo crecen, que ni hilan y enloquecen»
Answer:
El texto sugiere que las personas han caído en la maldad y han perdido la conexión con su verdadera esencia. A pesar de su falta de esfuerzo productivo, su influencia malévola se expande y crece. Es una reflexión sobre cómo las personas pueden perderse en la maldad y olvidar quiénes son realmente. En este contexto, el uso simbólico de los lirios en el texto nos remite a una referencia bíblica en el Evangelio de Mateo. Jesús, al hablar de los lirios del campo, enseñó sobre la providencia divina y la importancia de confiar en Dios. Los lirios, aunque no hilan ni trabajan, son vestidos por Dios con belleza y esplendor.”
Source: El Barbero de Verona
“Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.”
“Metaphorically, governance is like a “Steer,” Risk Management is like a “Brake.”
Source: Digitizing Boardroom: The Multifaceted Aspects of Digital Ready Boards
“Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.”
“Metaphorically, if the enterprise is a vehicle, Enterprise Performance Management is like the gas pedal with speed scoreboard.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“Metaphorically, in relation to the idea of heartbreak, we’re given lemons which are the experiences that cause the idea of heartbreak, then the water comes from our tears that may come during the seasons of our trials and finally the sweetener comes from the joy of the breakthrough and transformation, and in the end you end up with this metaphoric lemonade. When we have a better understanding of heartbreak we go from lemons to lemonade.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“Metaphorically, IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“Metaphorically, organizations are like vegetable gardens, where each capability is a different type of vegetable growing in the garden.”
Source: Digital Capability: Building Lego Like Capability Into Business Competency
“Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.”
“Metaphorically, tall buildings are people standing erect. As each [NY twin] tower fell, it became a body falling. We are not consciously aware of the metaphorical images, but they are part of the power and the horror we experience when we see them.”
Source: Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
“Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.”
“Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.”
“Metaphoring enables us to keep separate the elements of its domains at the same time we derive new meaning from their projection into a new, blended space.”
Source: The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition
“Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.”
“Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.”
“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor”
“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
“Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.”
“Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.”
“Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.”
Source: Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
“Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.”
“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.”
“Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.”
Source: Beyond All Dreams
“Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.”
“Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say it new! Say it new!" It's hard for emotion to feel flat if its language is suitably novel, to feel excessive if its rendering is suitably opaque. Metaphors translate emotion into surprising and sublime language, but they also help us deflect and diffuse the glare of revelation.”
Source: The Empathy Exams
“Metaphors can be read according to multiple interpretations; yet these interpretations can be more or less legitimated on the grounds of an underlying encyclopedic competence.”
Source: Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
“Metaphors convince at once or not at all.”
“metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.”
Source: Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women
“Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.”
“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.”
“Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.”
Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“Metaphors, similes, and analogies sharpen the sword of our writing. They allow us to cut quickly through the fat to the meat of our purpose (p. 146).”
Source: Write Better: A Lifelong Editor on Craft, Art, and Spirituality
“Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.”
“Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“Metaphysical anxiety of knowing that I am nothing standing in the crux of infinity haunts me. Self-centered mind chatter is a symptom of the illness of my soul. I instigated this banal writing excursion attempting to escape the monotony of the self, the tedium of living an exclusively external life of sensation and acquisition. I lived a vain, materialist, and empty life seeking pleasurable diversions from thinking and perceiving. I stupidly asked what I can take from life and measured the value of existence by repeatedly assessing what I received from living and ignored what I illiberally refused to give.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion
“Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.”
Source: The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes: Ancient philosophy
“METAPHYSICAL LECTURE 1
It has been said that after undergoing certain ordeals — whether ecstatic or abysmal — we should be obliged to change our names, as we are no longer who we once were. Instead the opposite rule is applied: our names linger long after anything resembling what we were, or thought we were, has disappeared entirely. Not that there was ever much to begin with — only a few questionable memories and impulses drifting about like snowflakes in a gray and endless winter. But each soon floats down and settles into a cold and nameless void.”
Source: Teatro Grottesco
“Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.”
Source: Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies