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The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke of the 'love which moves… — Venerable Bede
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. — Roger Zelazny
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to… — William Rehnquist
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but… — Maurice Sendak
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end… — Aharon Appelfeld
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes. — Aharon Appelfeld
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love. — Gayle Forman
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community… — Wes Jackson
To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is… — Unknown Author
But to say that the race is the metaphor for the life is to miss the point. The race is everything. It obliterates whatever isn't… — Donald Antrim
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… — Pat Pattison
A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up. — James Geary
This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million… — Adam Gollner
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path. — Larry Dossey
I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality. — Eliot Spitzer
Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. — Bill Griffith
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In… — Timothy Leary
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also… — Neil Peart
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and… — Sharon Olds
Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all — Immortal Technique
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it… — Bill Viola
It's no use telling us that something was 'mysterious' or 'loathsome' or 'awe-inspiring' or 'voluptuous.' By direct description, by metaphor and simile, by secretly evoking… — C.S. Lewis
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of… — Damon Albarn
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — Gregory Bateson
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… — John Searle

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