Changes Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

— Joseph Campbell

... I still wish to contend that some metaphors enable us to see aspects of reality that the metaphor's production helps to constitute. But…

— Max Black

Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

— Roberto Bolano

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown…

— Roni Horn

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

— George Eliot

I'm really easily moved, and I really believe, philosophically, that everything in the world exists at every point in time, in every gesture, in…

— RaMell Ross

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

— Wallace Stevens

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

— Wallace Stevens

Ask yourself... If my body were a metaphor for my life, what would the message be?

— Denise Linn

If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"

— Warren G. Bennis

Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.

— M. H. Abrams

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

— George Lakoff