Dictionary Quote by Paul Ricoeur Download Open image ““The dictionary contains no metaphors.”” — Paul Ricoeur ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dictionary Metaphor
“Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.” — Niklas Torneke Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they… — Chandler Burr Copy Share Image
“Metaphor reveals a writer’s true grasp of life. To the degree that you have no metaphor, you have not yet lived much of a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world -… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's… — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary. — Mae West Copy Share Image
Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
