Metaphor Quote by Terence McKenna

“The future, in fiction, is a metaphor. A metaphor for what? If I could have said it non-metaphorically, I would not have written all…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're…

— J.H. Wyman

It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future,…

— James M. Kouzes

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

— John Dewey

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“What you envision for the future, out of fear or out of joy, will become reality as the sands of time carve those paths…

— Jason T. Rogers

The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

— Vilayat Inayat Khan

“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind.

— Eckhart Tolle

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if…

— Robert J. Sawyer

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition…

— Frank Herbert

We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.

— Edgar Allan Poe