Cutting Quote by John Searle

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if…

— Robert J. Sawyer

The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought ,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Roberto Bolano

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

— Lynn Nottage

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

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

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

— Francesca Lia Block

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

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

— Richard Whately

... 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

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

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

— James Geary