Symbols Quotes

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a ...

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or ...

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering o...

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulu...

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban li...

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but th...

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve o...

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through ...

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting mood...

Symbols,” Langdon said, “in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upo...

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human b...

If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then d...

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped ...

There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities --...

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally ...

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure...

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while readi...

When a judge walks into the room, and everybody stands up, you’re not standing up to that guy, you’r...

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could b...

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is ...

Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when ...

Their message will never be decoded, not only because there is no key to it, but also because people...

Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. "But the heart is...

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everyt...