Human mind Quote by Northrop Frye

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

— Roberto Bolano

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

— Gregory Bateson

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

— George Lakoff

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

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

— George Lakoff

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

— James Geary

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

I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the…

— Steven Pinker

... 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

We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor.

— Robert Anton Wilson

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

— Lynn Nottage

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

— James Geary