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Analogies

«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.»
«We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience»
«Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.»
«The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: World | Keywords: Analogies, dubious, handsome, hopeful
«All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.»
«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»
«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.»
«Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.»
«Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home»
Author: Sigmund Freud (Founder) | About: Speech | Keywords: Analogies
«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.»