Advantage Quote by Mason Cooley

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.

— James Geary

I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

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

— Richard Dawkins

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

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

— George Lakoff

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

— Dan Brown

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

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

— James Geary

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

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

... 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