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Date: 2002

"Your mind works like a spider building an intricate web."

— Templeton, John, Sir (1912-2008)

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Date: December 11, 2011

"The idea that down in our foundations there lie grubby creatures like desires, or passions, or needs, or culture, is like some nightmarish madwoman in the attic, and induces the same kind of reaction that met Darwin when he too drew attention to our proximity to animals rather than to angels."

— Blackburn, Simon (b. 1944)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.