Quotes about Metaphor

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.

One problem with Yahweh, as they used to say in the old Christian Gnostic texts, is that he forgot he was a metaphor. He thought he was a fact. And when he said, "I am God," a voice was heard to say, "You are mistaken, Samael." "Samael" means "blind god": blind to the infinite Light of which he is a local historical manifestation. This is known as the blasphemy of Jehovah—that he thought he was God.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact

Men of science spend much time and effort in the attempt to disentangle words from their metaphorical and traditional associations;

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.