Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is… — Stephen Nathanson Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Because for me, equations and symbols aren't just a thing. They're a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
I base everything on my own life experiences as a female. I start from there, and then I look for characters and… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for… — David Icke Copy Share Image
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
The notion of representing a sound by a graphic symbol is itself so stupefying a leap of the imagination that what is… — Jack Goody Copy Share Image
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
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