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«The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worship Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wise think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, which is infinite.It is enough, they say, that the God thinks them.»
Author: R. Scott Bakker (Author, Writer) | Keywords: Analogies, analogy, finite, form of worship
«We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: Analogies, analogy
«Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli (Novelist, Prime Minister) | Keywords: Analogies, analogy, The Miracle
«All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: Analogies, analogy, detection
«The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: Analogies, analogy, cheerfulness, poignant, softened
«Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love. Friendship,like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: Analogies, analogy, diastole, Immortality of the Soul, systole
«Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.»
Author: Samuel Butler | Keywords: Analogies, analogy, misleading
«The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art / and, by analogy, our own experience / more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.»
Author: Susan Sontag (Activist, Critic, Writer) | Keywords: Analogies, analogy, commentary
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