A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
Face towards the perfect image of every organ and the shadows of disease will never touch you.
The heart is an organ of perception.
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
The hand is the prehensile organ of the mind.
Ours is not a dumb species. We have put a man on the moon. We have unlocked the secrets of the human genome. We have discovered how to take stem cells and coax them into becoming brain cells, heart muscle, liver tissue - any organ of the human body that needs repair. These are our miracles, and there are more. Yet we have not yet found a way to do the simplest things: To live in peace. To stop killing each other when we disagree. To distribute that which is good in life freely and fairly.
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
. . . if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened. . . but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.
You can make a saxophone into an electric organ; you can do everything with it
I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.
If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality.
The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style.
There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.
I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a former organ harvester describe a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.
People say that the largest sexual organ is the brain, and I think the fact that they definitely amuse each other is probably the strongest glue in that relationship.
Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
The German language is the organ among the languages.
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.
