Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. - Paul De Man

Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts. – Paul De Man

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Image
category

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. – Werner Herzog

Category:
Image

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

Category:
Image

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space — how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image! – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Image

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends. – Milan Kundera

Category:
Image

Random Quotes

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Forgiveness

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. – Tryon Edwards

Category:
Death

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes. – Jay Inslee

Category:
environmental

Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, 1894

Category:
Boldness