Quotes by Analogies Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it's own, & that we are all one Life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge analogies believe interesting E-books are impervious to analogy. Scott Adams library analogies book Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend. Seth Godin analogies steps needs You like that analogy? That was pretty good? Shaquille O'Neal analogies basketball The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces Sigmund Freud ego analogies wish Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies. Stefan Banach mathematician analogies A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. Stefan Banach proof analogies theory The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a "Christian" (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I. Soren Kierkegaard analogies tasks christian If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields. Stephen Jay Gould analogies genius fields A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters. T. E. Hulme analogies habit poetry And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation. Umberto Eco analogies matter believe A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while modern civilization is withdrawing accumulated solar capital at rates that will exhaust it in a tiny fraction of the time that was needed to create it. Vaclav Smil income analogies civilization In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. Walter Bagehot analogies military religious It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit. Wendell Berry soil analogies long The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases. Werner Heisenberg wave analogies two You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs. Wendell Berry analogies children people Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. Winston Churchill formidable analogies weapons The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician. Winston Churchill analogies simple mind «1234
