Facts Quote by Paul de Man Download Open image “Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.” — Paul de Man ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Facts
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card 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
Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“...asked by his wife whether he wants to have his bowling shoes laced over or laced under, Archie Bunker answers the question: "What's the… — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It… — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements. — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own… — Paul de Man Copy Share Image
“No one in his right mind will try to grow grapes by the luminosity of the word "day.” — Paul De Man Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Truth be told from compulsive liars with a history/Everything must change 2nd chances are a mystery — C-DASH Copy Share Image
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
