Metaphorical Quotes

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.

A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.

If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.