My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was… — Sabrina Ward Harrison Copy Share Image
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy:… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One of the challenges with pain - physical or psychic - is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It… — John Green Copy Share Image
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Writing is about making choices, Miss Dovecott says. One word or phrase or title over another. So many options that they're almost… — Jenny Hubbard Copy Share Image
This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life. The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and… — Jaimal Yogis Copy Share Image
There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish… — William Gass Copy Share Image
I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it,… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The basic idea is that there is this group that, over the centuries, has learned to control reincarnation. John's character stumbles into… — Glen Morgan Copy Share Image
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“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning and I lie in bed, and it's the time I call "the theater of morning." All… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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In my mind, he was guilty of no error - he was chargeable with no exaggeration - he was betrayed by his… — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux Copy Share Image
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
![“[The unconscious has] been on its own for a long time. Of course it has no access to the world except through your own sensorium. Otherwise it would just labor in the dark. Like your liver. For historical reasons it's loath to speak to you. It prefers drama, metaphor, pictures. But it understands…” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/beb/cormac-mccarthy-181_dark_the-unconscious-has-been-on-its-own-for_2193763.jpg)
