People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object,… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
This morning President Obama met with Britain's Prince William in the Oval Office. It was a meeting between a symbolic ruler with… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image