“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”

Source: Wyrd Sisters

Interview with the Boston Globe (27 July 2005)

Source: On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991), p. 81

"For Want of a Metaphor", p. 151
The Flamingo's Smile (1985)

Thought and Word, i
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

Kunnumpuram, Kurien, 2011 “Theological Exploration,” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 14/2 (July-Dec 2011)
On God

Early Writings, translated and ed. by , p. 159. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/epm/3rd.htm <br class="br">Context: Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital or when we directly possess, eat, drink, wear, inhabit it, etc., in short, when we use it. Although private property conceives all these immediate realizations of possession only as means of life; and the life they serve is the life of private property, labor, and capitalization. Therefore all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by the simple estrangement of all these senses – the sense of having. So that it might give birth to its inner wealth, human nature had to be reduced to this absolute poverty.

Part I, Prop. XVIII
Ethics (1677)

&quot; A Defense of Slang http://books.google.com/books?id=8WpaAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;all+slang+is+metaphor+and+all+metaphor+is+poetry&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA110#v=onepage&quot; <br class="br">The Defendant (1901)