Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.
I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.
Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.
No historical analogies are exactly precise.
The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.
The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.
We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a framing that sets each of them on equal footing, and implicitly analogies the political situation to a fist fight, a soccer match, or a domestic quarrel. So if, then, the only two intelligible political positions are "pro-Palestinian" or "pro-Israeli," the presumption is that one's position is determined by a sentiment that wants one side to win over the other.
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. But if you are content to be something, you may by analogy be many things.
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,-the relation of resemblance of facts by which its different parts are connected, arranged, and employed, either for popular use, or for new speculative improvements.
I like the analogy that the way that we live in Western Society, the energy that we consume in the form of fossil fuels, is the energy equivalent in pre-fossil fuel terms of having 500 slaves.
The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.
Desperate times call for desperate analogies.
"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true. . . We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.
Sam Harris made that great analogy. He said, 'If someone was talking into their hair dryer and claiming that they were speaking to God, they would call Bellevue. But, take away the hair dryer, it's just praying. '
