Symbols Quotes
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Nature is the symbol of Spirit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.
— Sophia Amoruso
Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.
— Gertrud Von Le Fort
Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
— Mark Tobey
If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!
— Rudolph Valentino
the poorly typed lines, the symbols and abbreviations of Internet chat that make such language seem so much like a process of decay. As
— Garth Greenwell
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
— Seth MacFarlane
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess, Celia says, transcribing a line of symbols into her notebook.
— Erin Morgenstern
Our lives are structured around power symbols: money, authority, title, beauty, security.
— Caroline Myss
Our best answers in defense of Christianity have always been useless clanging symbols unless our lives have inspired the world to ask.
— Rachel Held Evans
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Birds are born to have wings; wings are symbols of freedom.
— Nancy Yi Fan
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.
— Philippe Starck
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
— Al Nichol
The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.
— James Woods
Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Who rules our symbols, rules us.
— Alfred Korzybski
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
— Joseph Campbell
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.
— C.S. Lewis
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
— Oscar Wilde
Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
— Meister Eckhart
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
— Brandon Mull
The lives of the poor are rich in symbols.
— Rohinton Mistry
The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238
— Leslie Bratspis
They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.
— Thomas Merton
Somber Yellowstone Park and its colored hot springs, baby geysers, rainbows of bubbling mud - symbols of my passion.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The earth from afar shines like a star
— Vincent Van Gogh
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.
— Francois Viete
When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
— John Grierson
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
— Margot Asquith
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
— Alan Moore
Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.
— Anselm Kiefer
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.
— Susan Abulhawa
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.
— John Armstrong
A Socialist State demands precisely the same human symbols as that of Fascist or Nazi, and the same surrender of human liberties if it is to succeed.
— Eden Phillpotts
Rings were symbolic. Rings were in circles. Circles never ended, which is why they were symbols of eternity. No beginning no end.
— Chelsea M. Cameron
Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers ... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.
— Kay WalkingStick
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
— Charles Jencks
It is war now, and armies need symbols.
— Lauren Oliver
My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.
— Adolph Gottlieb
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
— Joseph Campbell
Busts, carvings, engravings, and symbols of King Ludwig's
— Chris Colfer
People need symbols, something greater than their own lives.
— Robert Ferrigno
Heraldry: Sources, symbols, and meaning
— Ottfried Neubecker
The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Visual journals are created in a secret language of symbols. Intentional or not, they are private maps only their makers can follow.
— Jennifer New
The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.
— Joseph Campbell
Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.
— George Stigler
The fire alarm is not the fire.
— Marty Rubin
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry
— Jacob Bronowski
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.
— Manly Hall
The gift of intuition may bless you with powerful symbols that convey feelings, energy and emotions beyond what words could ever express.
— Catherine Carrigan
All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past
— Jorge Luis Borges
Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer.
— Susan Juby
His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world.
— Andrew Hodges
capitalism is not "materialistic," but "semiotic." It concerns mainly the psychological world of signs, symbols, images, and brands,
— Geoffrey Miller
How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?
— Cameron Conaway
A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.
— Bernard Bloch
Gifts are visual symbols of love.
— Gary Chapman
Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.
— Vilem Flusser
All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.
— Megan Fox
Music and symbols, they're older than human race.Prehuman beings used them to teach early mankind. — Toba Beta
The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
— Christopher Nolan
Those persons who refuse to act as symbols of society's folk ways, as counters in the game of society's ordaining, are outlawed.
— Randolph Bourne
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters ... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are symbols of themselves.
— Allen Ginsberg
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
— Jorge Luis Borges
There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.
— Lance Conrad
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[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .
— C. Wright Mills
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
— Thomas Carlyle
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
— George Henry Lewes
But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
— Daniel Clowes
Little symbols of love are like molten lava, there's something even hotter below the surface.
— Dixie Waters
When I think of sex symbols, I think of posters my two sisters had on their bedroom walls.
— Jamie Dornan
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.
— Francois Hollande
I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol minded.
— George Carlin
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
— Herbert Read
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.
— Marvin Minsky
