{"quotes":[{"text":"A Lie is something like the truth, but the truth is not like a Lie.","author":"Dan Raper","tags":["allegory","lies","truth","unequal-opposite"],"id":4196,"author_id":"Dan+Raper"},{"text":"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["allegory","jealousy","mockery","monsters","vices"],"id":26196,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had been in like straits in respect of Greek mythology), that great Excalibur which they had forged with infinite pains and skill—the method of allegorical interpretation. This mighty 'two-handed engine at the door' of the theologian is warranted to make a speedy end of any and every moral or intellectual difficulty, by showing that, taken allegorically or, as it is otherwise said, 'poetically' or, 'in a spiritual sense,' the plainest words mean whatever a pious interpreter desires they should mean.","author":"Thomas Henry Huxley","tags":["allegorical-interpretation","allegory","ity","difficulty","divine","ethical","excalibur","greek-mythology","interpretation","naturalism","scripture","stoics","theologian"],"id":26842,"author_id":"Thomas+Henry+Huxley"},{"text":"In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.","author":"Flannery O'Connor","tags":["allegorical-interpretation","allegory","grace","moral-values","morality","perception","world-view","worldview","writing","writing-craft","writing-fiction"],"id":27464,"author_id":"Flannery+O%27Connor"},{"text":"Long before there was ever a King James Version of our Bible, there was a gospel truth...And long before doctrines and denominations, the preeminence of the gospel was already ripe to harvest. Before man had ever thought about creating symbols to represent spiritual things...There was a gospel.","author":"Chandel L. White","tags":["allegory","christianity","esoteric-wisdom","gospel"],"id":31846,"author_id":"Chandel+L.+White"},{"text":"There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory.","author":"Douglas M. Laurent","tags":["allegory","epic-poetry","history","martial-arts","meditation","mythology","saga","spirituality","strategy","wisdom"],"id":37013,"author_id":"Douglas+M.+Laurent"},{"text":"This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be their task to translate the elements of the poem or play or novel or story into something else. Sometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself - albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony - the clear and explicit interpretation of it. Thomas Mann is an example of such an overcooperative author. In the case of more stubborn authors, the critic is only too happy to perform the job.","author":"Susan Sontag","tags":["against-interpretation","allegory","criticism"],"id":43851,"author_id":"Susan+Sontag"},{"text":"Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["allegory","comparisons","example","irony","metaphor","richelle","richelle-goodrich"],"id":63089,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Carol says we speak with one voice. What she doesn't say is that voice belongs to HER. There's only one song to sing these days--Carol's song--and if you aren't in harmony, you can stick a stone in your mouth and shut the hell up.","author":"Joe Hill","tags":["allegory","political"],"id":84365,"author_id":"Joe+Hill"},{"text":"...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["allegory","happiness","story","tolstoy"],"id":120666,"author_id":"John+Geddes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}