“Metaphor is the language of immanence; metonymy of transcendence.”

— Northrop Frye

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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

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Book I, Chapter 2, p. 49
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“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding.”

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“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

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“The history of metaphysics, like the history of the West, is the history of these metaphors and metonymies. It’s matrix—If you will pardon me for demonstrating so little and for being elliptical in order to come more quickly to my principle theme—is the determination of Being as presence in all sense of this word.”

Jacques Derrida book Writing and Difference

Structure, Sign and Play
Writing and Difference (1978)

“Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.”

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader

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