parables

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Examples

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables. Werner Heisenberg

The soul speaks to itself in parables. Joseph Joubert

So the story of the baby-sitting co-op is not a mere amusement. If people would only take it seriously-if they could only understand that when great economic issues are at stake, whimsical parables are not a waste of time but the key to enlightenment-it is a story that could save the world. Paul Krugman

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. Camille Paglia

If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares. Franz Kafka

They are reduced to wrongdoers of the mind Merely because: They misused parables. (...) They are people who have missed life, stuck in a place where life is misunderstood Everything they have gone through -- is a mere tragedy of birth. Duo Duo