Perhaps you're thinking of Nietzsche?:

"What is truth? A moving army of metaphors, metonymies and
anthropomorphisms, in short a summa of human relationships that are
being poetically and rhetorically sublimated, transposed, and
beautified until, after long and repeated use, a people considers them
as solid, canonical, and unavoidable. Truths are illusions whose
illusionary nature has been forgotten, metaphors that have been used
up and have lost their imprint and that now operate as mere metal, no
longer as coins."

On 10/19/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
who was it who argued that our thinking always (almost?) involves
similes and metaphors?

--
Jim Devine / "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely
believe they are free." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



--
Sandwichman

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