Embossing Quotes

In the bookshops in the Muslim areas of our cities-for instance in the bookshops around the Jama Masjid in Delhi- the collections of fatwas fill shelves after shelves. They are put together with great care, the sort of care one associates with sacred literature. The pages are well laid out. The calligraphy is often a work of art. The volumes are beautifully bound- ever so often with gilded embossing on the covers. (Arun Shourie)
Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions - they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche