Constructs Quote by Robert Anton Wilson

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

— Marshall McLuhan

Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we…

— George Lakoff

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

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

— Roberto Bolano

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

— John Green

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

— James Geary

Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people…

— George Lakoff

We use metaphors to express our own truths.

— Lynn Nottage

Language is memory and metaphor.

— Storm Jameson

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

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

— Gregory Bateson