Quotation

I Is An Other

the Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
Metaphorical thinking . . . is the essence of creativity in the sciences as well as the arts. Whenever we solve a problem, make a discovery, or devise and innovation . . . metaphorical thinking takes place. . . . The paradox of metaphor is that it tells us so much about a person, place, or thing by telling us what that person, place or thing is not. . . . A metaphor is both detour and destination, a digression that gets to the point. Aristotle identified the mastery of metaphorical thinking as “a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars.”