Behavior Quote by Mason Jennings

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

— Matthew Woodring Stover

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

— George Lakoff

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

— Lynn Nottage

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

— George Lakoff

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume…

— Umberto Eco

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

— Orson Scott Card

“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced,…

— Anonymous

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

— Max Black

“What therefore is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms: in short a sum of human relations which became poetically and rhetorically intensified,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Roberto Bolano

“A metaphor is not merely a linguistic expression (a form of words) used for artistic or rhetorical purposes; instead, it is a process of…

— Mark Johnson