Hiding in plain sight Quote by James Geary

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

— Richard Dawkins

Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves…

— James Geary

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

Linguists have noticed that across the history of language some words start out as obvious, conscious metaphors and then slowly embed themselves in our…

— Michael Rosen

It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe…

— Nick Laird

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

— Roberto Bolano

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

Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people…

— George Lakoff

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— James Geary

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction…

— Max Black