Symbols Quotes
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.
The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.
The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.
Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.
The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.
You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.
The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.
I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.
Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.
That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.
She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.
We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.
