"Heidegger reached naturally towards metaphor, in which more than one thing is kept implicitly (hiddenly) before the mind
[...] We need to allow the ‘silent’ right hemisphere to speak, with its understanding that is hard to put into the ordinary language of every day
" p. 155
"Although modern Western languages are not syllabic, but phonemic, we can get an idea of what this is like if we remain aware of the etymology of English (or German, or other Western) words – if we are sufficiently aware of a word’s structure, and of the original meanings of the component parts. In syllabic languages, therefore, meaning is less arbitrary, more clearly rooted in the world out of which it emanates, and retains its metaphoric base to a greater extent. [...] In both these respects syllabic languages favour understanding by the right hemisphere" p. 275
"The world is not a brute fact but, like a myth or metaphor, semi-transparent (transparency), containing all its meaning within itself, yet pointing to something lying beyond itself." p. 312
"in its emphasis on, [...], on the world as never just what it ‘seems’ to be, but pointing beyond to something Other, a world that is semi-transparent (transparency), pregnant with myth and metaphor [...] in all these respects, it seems to me that the Renaissance started out with a huge expansion of the right hemisphere’s way of being in the world" p. 329
"paraphrase of metaphor produces ‘a loss of cognitive content’; it is not just that literal paraphrase ‘may be tiresomely prolix or boringly explicit (implicitness)" p. 190f