Symbols Quotes

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

Israel must remove the two blue stripes from its national flag. The stripes on the flag are symbols of occupation. They signify Israel's borders stretching from the River Euphrates to the River Nile.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

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.

Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.

I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols.

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as long as they don't tear down decent saloons in the process.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.

The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.