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“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.”

World Mind Real Term Fields Behavior Conscious Built Metaphor Real World Vocabulary Subjective Conscious Mind Analog

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“Ghosts are a metaphor for memory and remembrance and metaphorically connect our world to the world we cannot know about.”

Knows World Memories Metaphor Ghost Our World Remembrance

Author:Leslie What

“A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.”

Knows Real Self Hate Sex Loss Grief Secret Forever Possibility Metaphor Vampire Agency Lasting Flexible Love Hate Stagnation Real Self Forever Love Sex Change

Author:Kelly Link

“Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.”

World Writing Real Fields Horror Metaphor Novelists Plus Real World Mainstream Fertile

Author:Bentley Little

“Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.”

Democratic Metaphor Envy Simile

Author:Giannina Braschi

“Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.”

Should Mind Influence Sight Metaphor Unconscious Plain Sight Hiding In Plain Sight

Author:James Geary

“A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.”

Enough Grows Powerful Metaphor

Book:Blade of Tyshalle

Source: Blade of Tyshalle

“This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is saying the ant is an elephant. Now, logically speaking, I know there is a difference. If you put elephants and ants before me, I believe that every time I will correctly identify the elephant and the ant. So metaphor must come from a very different place than that of the logical, intelligent mind. It comes from a place that is very courageous, willing to step out of our preconceived ways of seeing things and open so large that it can see the oneness in an ant and in an elephant.”

Ifs Knows Way Mind Believe Different I Believe Differences Steps Alive Seeing Willing Intelligent Metaphor Oneness Logical Courageous Elephants Ants Different Place

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.”

Metaphor Prisoner

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.”

Thinking Knows Writing Trying Mind Hard Faces Numbers Rocks Mountain Findings Okay Metaphor Hardest Climbs Climbing Funny Things Screenplays Climbing Mountain Blindfolded Climbing Up

Author:Michael Arndt

“What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.”

Knows Spirit One Thing Poet Metaphor Urges Poetic Like Something Markers Uranium

Author:Tony Hoagland

“Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!”

“On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly masquerading as historical explanation.”

Book Problem Language Social Steps Ideals Historical Metaphor Occasions Explanation Assault Selected Social Problems Organised

Book:History in Our Time

Source: History in Our Time

“Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.”

Source: An Essay on the Restoration of Property

“If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.”

Ifs Atheism Figures Son Speech Metaphor Positive Atheism Adam Adam And Eve Parables Prodigals Prodigal Son Figures Of Speech

Author:Dan Barker

“Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the city where believers have killed unbelievers to give life to faith.”

Giving Has Beens Stills Cities Atheism Destruction Metaphor Positive Atheism Believer Vengeance Offended Jerusalem Unbelievers

Book:Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

Source: Jerusalem, Battlegrounds of Memory

“A creed is an ossified metaphor.”

Atheism Metaphor Positive Atheism Creeds

Book:A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard

“It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.”

Use Easier Baseball Metaphor Explaining

Author:Paul Simon

“Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.”

Trying Use Force Virtue Atheism Hero Destruction Metaphor Jew Positive Atheism Profession Bars Irrational

Author:Florence King

“I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense.”

Sometimes Metaphor Make Sense

Author:David Boreanaz

“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.”

Way Years Said Real America Used Company Happenings Metaphor Real Life Used To Be

Author:Immortal Technique

“It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse.”

Ifs Two War Problem Fighting Sides Taken Approach Metaphor Tendencies Atmosphere Discourse Headlines Two Sides Contention Using Me Animosity Public Discourse

Author:Deborah Tannen

“Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.”

Emotion Approach Metaphor Awkward

Author:Rachel Hartman

“The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.”

Way Process Our Lives Approach Metaphor Inevitable Breathing Accurate Inevitable Change

Book:The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work

Source: The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work

“This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change.”

Issues Reader Adults Method Endure Metaphor Practicals Anger Issues

Author:Jeffrey K. Zeig

“Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured essential elements of Erickson's work and applied it to therapy with children. Easy to read, meticulously referenced, and filled with inspiring case studies, Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within has now been updated with important new findings, and it's essential reading for clinicians who work with children as well as for those who want to improve their use of therapeutic metaphor.”

“I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the cladding of sensory appearance and discern the abstract construction underneath - not always on demand, and not infallibly, but often enough and insightfully enough to shape the human condition. Our powers of analogy allow us to apply ancient neural structures to newfound subject matter, to discover hidden laws and systems in nature, and not least, to amplify the expressive power of language itself.”

Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

“Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.”

Reality Originals Metaphor Unreal

Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

“Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.”

Mind Causes Mistake Metaphor Making Mistakes

Book:Men in the Off Hours

Source: Men in the Off Hours

“Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.”

Use Used Seeing Figures Speech Metaphor Print Simile Figures Of Speech

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950

“Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.”

Knows Faces Fighting Sound Metaphor Believer

Author:Frank Grillo

“We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.”

Ifs Thinking Made I Can Different Real Eye Age Form Grows Growing Up Doubt Claims Metaphor Hungry Coming Of Age Mixing Winnipeg

Author:Guy Gavriel Kay

“Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.”

“Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.”

Sometimes Home Memories Argument Metaphor Gunpowder

Book:Essays, English and American

Source: Essays, English and American

“A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.”

Happens Order Speak Perfect Fashion Ignorance Shapes Dresses Metaphor Tricks Architect Conform Gothic Corinthians Snobby French Woman

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.”

Knows Worst Metaphor Gardening

Book:Mrs. Miniver

Source: Mrs. Miniver

“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”

Ifs Wells May States Friendship Violence Broken Stones Let Me Metaphor Accidents Former Heat Trusted Hopelessness Flawed Restoring Coarse Vases Precious Stones

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“Safe Harbor is a state of mind... its the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.”

Mind States Reality Song Church Prayer Worry Trouble Safe Garden Metaphor Beach State Of Mind Harbors Times Of Trouble Safe Harbor

Author:Luanne Rice

“A world ends when its metaphor has died.”

World Ends Died Metaphor

Book:New & collected poems, 1917-1976

Source: New & collected poems, 1917-1976

“Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.”

Energy Connections Metaphor Leap Revealing

Book:The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions

Source: The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism in Four Dimensions

“I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.”

Ideas Would Be Rooms Rain Flow Metaphor Corners Sentences Sentiments Charming Illustration

Book:Jane Austen The Dover Reader

Source: Jane Austen The Dover Reader

“I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.”

Thinking Writing I Can Family Metaphor

Author:Anna Quindlen

“It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.”

Wells May Doe Lying Water Steps Logic Metaphor

Author:Isaac Watts

“The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy.”

Light Study Function Ancient Metaphor Valuable Golden Substance Alchemy Implicit Golden Light

Author:Patricia Hampl

“Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.”

“Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.”

Used Metaphor Illness Unjust

Book:Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

“The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.”

Stills Spiritual Spirituality Journey Metaphor Traditional Investigation Voyages

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.”

Night Individual Belief Consciousness Aspect Metaphor Buddhist Flames Mysticism Mystical Mystical Experiences

Author:Marilyn Ferguson

“Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God.”

Writing Wells Heart Use Reality Religion Order Courses Literature Scientist Metaphor Patterns Rational Confusion Aesthetic Physicist

Author:Taner Edis

“Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly, but deal with content; be a formalist exploration; and operate on some, metaphor is not the right word but, resonant level.”

Mean Art Levels Deals Four Objects Photographer Photograph Metaphor Exploration Documents Right Words

Author:Stephen Shore

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