The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports… — Clint Howard Copy Share Image
We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church.… — Amy Ziering Copy Share Image
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, most people believe that analogies are one of the best ways to persuade. That fact goes far in explaining why it… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
For seven years ancient Israel could not be stopped in the Joshua book. I have found this to be a great imagery… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The analogy I use is that 'World of Warcraft' is like going to the mall: you see a ton of people there,… — John Romero Copy Share Image
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
No, not really. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a part. You just go into it, and like… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I definitely think men can be leaders. I see an analogy in the case of what helped me think about racism, which… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e.,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate… — James Alison Copy Share Image
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I may make a football analogy, we're a team whether we're a football team or community or the United States of… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can… — Martin Guevara Urbina Copy Share Image
I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented,… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
“If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I… — Kenneth J.W. Craik Copy Share Image
How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
