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Metaphors Quotes by Joseph Campbell
- Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them…
- Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,…
- Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they…
- There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts.…
- Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
More Metaphors Quotes
- A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman
- Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. — Faith Baldwin
- Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that. — Alan Ball
- There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson
- Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley
- Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. — Samuel Butler
- Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic… — Lord Byron
- Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own… — Joseph Campbell
- Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card
- The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the… — David Allan Coe
- We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we… — Friedrich Nietzsche