Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
Matt GroeningMots clés humor love metaphor simpsons
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Our metaphors for the operation of the brain are frequently drawn from the production line. We think of the brain as a glorified sausage machine, taking in information from the senses, processing it and regurgitating it in a different form, as thoughts or actions. The digital computer reinforces this idea because it is quite explicitly a machine that does to information what a sausage machine does to pork. Indeed, the brain was the original inspiration and metaphor for the development of the digital computer, and early computers were often described as 'giant brains'. Unfortunately, neuroscientists have sometimes turned this analogy on its head, and based their models of brain function on the workings of the digital computer (for example by assuming that memory is separate and distinct from processing, as it is in a computer). This makes the whole metaphor dangerously self-reinforcing.
Steve GrandMots clés cybernetics metaphor brain cognition neuroscience
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands, since the publication of Newton's ‘Principia’, is Darwin's ‘Origin of Species.
Thomas Henry HuxleyMots clés science knowledge biology history goal metaphor justification ocean analogy isaac-newton newton business charles-darwin darwin illimitable inexplicability infinite intellectual origin-of-species possessions principia solidity unknown
Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a
red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of
someone who was annoyed by it.
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Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Thomas FullerMots clés ignorance metaphor admire
If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.
Maya AngelouMots clés metaphor
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
Virginia Woolf...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.
António R. DamásioMots clés consciousness knowledge mind self-awareness metaphor
It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.
Malcolm XMots clés metaphor race-relations coffee integration
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother TeresaMots clés paraphrased love agape metaphor
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