I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life,… — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is 'veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols' because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may… — Carl H. Claudy Copy Share Image
Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr Copy Share Image
Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“As symbol, or as the structuring of symbols, art can render intelligible -- or at least visible, at least discussible -- those… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
And yes,Percy,of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol,the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I have a three-legged milk stool in my office perched on top of a cabinet. It is a great symbol for how… — Larry H. Miller Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The spread of yoga is the symbol of a changing world. It represents a world where knowledge flows, without restriction of country,… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
[Pope Francis] has done this not through angry speeches, but through the powerful symbols and examples of embracing a badly deformed man,… — John I. Jenkins Copy Share Image
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children's grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect… — Ted Shawn Copy Share Image
Im a person of faith, and the language that I use to define my faith, the symbols and metaphors that I rely… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
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