In the bow metaphor Heraclitus compares the resultant to a strung bow held in shape by an equilibrium of the string tension and spring action of the bow: There is a harmony in the bending back ( παλίντροπος palintropos ) as in the case of the bow and the lyre.

Schopenhauer sees reason as weak and insignificant compared to Will ; in one metaphor, Schopenhauer compares the human intellect to a lame man who can see, but who rides on the shoulder of the blind giant of Will.

It is different from a metaphor, which compares two unlike things by saying that the one thing is the other thing, unlike the simile that uses word like or as ( also " if " and " than ", although these are not common ).

The term is a metaphor which compares a government to a puppet controlled by strings by an outside puppeteer.

Here he compares Florence with " Myrrha, wicked and ungodly, yearning for the embrace of her father, Cinyras "; a metaphor, Claire Honess interprets as referring to the way Florence tries to " seduce " Pope Clement V away from Henry VII.

" Ames ( 1981: 74 ) compares the Hanfeizi attribution of this yinglong and tengshe metaphor to the Legalist philosopher Shen Dao.

The Chandogya Upanishad ( 3. 16 ) states that the Purushamedha is actually a metaphor for life itself, and it compares the various stages of life to the oblations that are offered.

In the metaphor, found at 488a-489d, Plato's Socrates compares the population at large to a strong but nearsighted shipowner whose knowledge of seafaring is lacking.

Perhaps for this reason, cognitive metaphor has significant promise for some kind of rapprochement between linguistics and literary study.

" The space is a wonderful metaphor for the Conservatory's past and the future promise embodied by our students ," said Colin Murdoch, Conservatory president.

This verse returns to the fruit metaphor of Matthew 3: 8 adding a promise of eventual punishment.

Richard M. Steers and Luciara Nardon in their book about global economy use the " two cows " metaphor to illustrate the concept of cultural differences.

The books are a metaphor of breaking mental barriers, finding oneself in adversity, and growing above petty interests towards global strategies and greatness.

With Brazil modernizing in the global economy, third-phase Cinema Novo also became more polished and professional, producing " films in which the rich cultural texture of Brazil has been pushed to the limit and exploited for its own aesthetic ends rather than for its appropriateness as political metaphor.

* The choice between taking a blue or red pill is a central metaphor in the 2011 Arte documentary film Marx Reloaded, in which philosophers including Slavoj Zizek and Nina Power explore solutions to the global economic and financial crisis of 2008 – 09.

But Friedman is going to spend the next 470 pages turning the " flat world " into a metaphor for global interconnectedness.

: CW: I often use the following metaphor: the Havurah movement represents the Misnagdim and the Renewal movement the Hasidim of the Jewish counter-culture.

The metaphor of movement of iron in the proximity of a magnet is used to describe this process.

As a metaphor " to be hamstrung " suggests having limitations, externally imposed or not, preventing full freedom of movement or utilization of resources.

Simply put, he considered riding in a train as an internal metaphor for early sexual excitement found in movement, such as a child swinging on a playground swing.

For Broszat, the idea of Lebensraum was more of a vague utopian " metaphor " which served to provide a vision for the Nazi movement and was not a coherent foreign policy.

But some time later, the metaphor of the morning star that Isaiah 14: 12 applied to a king of Babylon gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for " morning star ", capitalized, as the original name of the Devil before his fall from grace, linking Isaiah 14: 12 with (" I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven ") and interpreting the passage in Isaiah as an allegory of Satan's fall from heaven.

Following Schenck v. United States, " clear and present danger " became both a public metaphor for First Amendment speech and a standard test in cases before the Court where a United States law limits a citizen's First Amendment rights ; the law is deemed to be constitutional if it can be shown that the language it prohibits poses a " clear and present danger ".

As such, a Muslim is advised to establish a balance between living this life to its fullest ( i. e. seeking family, wealth, position and other such worldly pursuits ) and remembering that whatever this life offers will be over when his / her life is over, hence the metaphor of a traveler resting in an oasis before moving on to their ultimate destination.

Socrates remarks that this allegory can be taken with what was said before, namely the metaphor of the Sun, and the divided line.

But I have a metaphor regarding him in my mind: I imagine people in primitive chaos, who sit before the fire in their caves and do not understand anything in their life except for the responsibility to eat and to breed.

His two recurring catchphrases are " I am the terror that flaps in the night ", followed by an improvised metaphor before he gives his name, and the battlecry of " let's get dangerous ".

This metaphor comes from gambling with dice: once the die or dice have been thrown, all bets are irrevocable, even before the dice have come to rest.

Still, approaches to ecumenism varies, i. e. while generally Protestants see it as agreements on teachings about central issues of faith, an organizational unity with mutual accountability between the parts, for Catholics and Orthodox the Christendom unity is approached within their more concrete understanding of the Body of Christ metaphor, this ecclesiological matter being closely linked to key theological issues ( i. e. the Eucharist ), demanding full dogmatic agreement before full communion.

: The aim of the second kind of imitation, as we have said before, is to reproduce the intonations of the passions and the emotions, and even to trace a musical image, or metaphor, of objects that can only be seen.

Speculation suggests that Andersen was the illegitimate son of prince Christian Frederik ( later King Christian VIII of Denmark ), and found this out some time before he wrote the book, and then that being a swan in the story was a metaphor not just for inner beauty and talent but also for secret royal lineage.

He offered a striking cricket metaphor for British negotiations on EMU in Europe: " It is rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease, only for them to find, as the first balls are being bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain ".

In his analysis of the Tao Te Ching, Victor H. Mair notes that the jewel metaphor was already widely used in Indian religious metaphor before the Tao Te Ching was written.

King has recently stated that Paul's addiction to Novril, and his dependency on Annie to supply it, was a metaphor for his substance abuse at the time and how he was unable to clean himself up before his family intervened.

" He responded to Sanford's kindling metaphor that " eloquence may set fire to reason, but, whatever my be thought of the redundant discourse before us, it had no chance of starting a present conflagration.

Mark, placing the fig tree before and after the incident in the Temple, may be using the fig tree as a metaphor for what he sees as the barrenness of the priests and the withering of their teaching and authority due to their lack of true faith.

A common metaphor used to describe academic writing is “ entering the conversation ”, a conversation that began long before you got there and will continue long after you leave.

According to Maldonatus ( 1583 ), whose theory has since been accepted by many scholars, the metaphor " to be in Abraham's Bosom " is derived from the custom of reclining on couches at table which prevailed among the Jews during and before the time of Christ.

Strehlow died of a heart attack in 1978, just before the opening of an exhibition of his collection of artefacts, while conversing with Justice Kirby and his friend and colleague Ronald Berndt on the extinction of the bilby ( the key animal in the bandicoot ritual ) by introduced rabbits, a metaphor for what was happening to the aborigines and their culture with the spread of white civilisation.

Indeed, Tourgee's first use of the legal metaphor of " color blindness " came decades before while serving as a Superior Court judge in North Carolina.

The Chinese idiomatic expression " 天書 " ( book from heaven ) is a metaphor for incomprehensible writing akin to " that's Greek to me " in English, referring to a writing system of unknown origins never seen before by mankind.

Boccaccio provides one of the most memorable examples in his Il Filostrato, where he mixes the tradition of love at first sight, the eye's darts, and the metaphor of Cupid's arrow: " Nor did he ( Troilus ) who was so wise shortly before ... perceive that Love with his darts dwelt within the rays of those lovely eyes ... nor notice the arrow that sped to his heart.