Metaphor

A metaphor is an attempt to express a insight. Essential thoughts are verbalized by metaphors. A metaphor will never exist and have a content if it is not something real that it is trying to tell us. What it tries to portray is a core we are able to sight, but not see. We are not able to express this truth in words of direct correspondence, so we have to resort to images and fables. The more abstract a insight is, the more metaphorical is our language. No one has used metaphors better than Plato, but neither has anyone else struggled more to free one selves from this use.