“The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.”
Source: Equisse d'une Théorie de la Pratique (1977), p. 91
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French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher 1930–2002Related quotes
On how he employs metaphors in “Jericho Brown: ‘Poetry is a veil in front of a heart beating at a fast pace” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/28/jericho-brown-book-interview-q-and-a-new-testament-poetry in The Guardian (2018 Jul 28)
“A metaphor for seeing God's signature in the world.”
An indication of what he meant by the term "The Big Music" of a Waterboys song, a phrase which came to be applied to the group's early musical style, and that of a few other bands, as quoted in "Pieces of eighties" by John Robinson, in The Guardian (23 April 2004) http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/apr/24/popandrock1
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A metaphor for seeing God's vision in the world.
As quoted in "The Making Of... The Waterboys’ The Whole Of The Moon", in Uncut (June 2013) http://www.uncut.co.uk/the-waterboys/the-making-of-the-waterboys-the-whole-of-the-moon-feature
“A writer without confidence is like a metaphor without something to compare itself to.”
Rewrites (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) p. 105
“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
" A Defense of Slang http://books.google.com/books?id=8WpaAAAAMAAJ&q="all+slang+is+metaphor+and+all+metaphor+is+poetry"&pg=PA110#v=onepage"
The Defendant (1901)
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Either ghosts are a metaphor for history, or history is a metaphor for ghosts.”
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 133
“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.”
“Their minds were sudden merchants: metaphor, like money, equalised the incommensurable.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 27 (p. 312)