May Quote by Max Black Download Open image “...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.” — Max Black ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Metaphor Seems
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. — John Green Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy. — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“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 of organized information to be fed in. The success of a metaphor is a function of the sociocultural format of the interpreting subjects; encyclopedia. In this perspective, metaphors are produced solely on the basis of a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fine doesn't mean fine! The scale goes: great, good, okay, not okay, I hate you, fine. — Max Black Copy Share Image
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. — Max Black Copy Share Image
We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there… — Max Black Copy Share Image
... 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 Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn… — Jay Asher Copy Share
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
