Christopher Tilley

Discourse occurs at the silent level of the artefact and is continuously presenced in the world as such. It is a discourse which is not, and cannot be, articulated in speech.

— Christopher Tilley

When we link things metaphorically we recognise similarity in difference, we think one thing in terms of attributes of another.

— Christopher Tilley

To be human is to think through metaphors.

— Christopher Tilley

Metaphors are thus the very medium and outcome of our analysis.

— Christopher Tilley