Believe Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we…

— George Lakoff

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

— George Lakoff

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

— Lynn Nottage

I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in…

— Roger Caillois

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary

Everything in life is a metaphor.

— Haruki Murakami

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

— Anonymous

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

— George Lakoff

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by…

— John Searle

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

— Denis Leary

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

— OMI