Identical Quote by Umberto Eco

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

— Roberto Bolano

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for…

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.

— Wallace Stevens

I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in…

— Roger Caillois

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble…

— George Orwell

... 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

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

— Jodi Picoult

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

— William P. Young

“And one of my firmest conclusions is that we always think by seeking and drawing parallels to things we know from our past, and…

— Douglas Hofstadter

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of…

— Robin Sloan

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

— James Geary