#meta

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. ↗

— William Hague

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It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#articulate #attempting #because #cinema #describe

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#flexible #metal #more #than #weight

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. ↗

— Ben Harper

#classical #comes #even #find #going

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#given #leans #lyric #metaphorical #recent

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#fuse #images #metaphor #together #try

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#beings #disregarding #explicitly #extent #ground

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #metaphor #mind #other #scripture

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#beyond #exercise #i #i think #important

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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