The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
“(…) symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality…” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly… — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“I knew that meant we were done and that we'd smooth over the surface I'd just tossed a rock into, but even… — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
“It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I'm not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“In fact, unconscious scanning goes on all the time. It seems more than ever that what we know as the visionary or… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning… — Harley King Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
I support mosques, obviously. We need churches, temples, mosques. Whatever people use to speak with their god or to receive spiritual inspiration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Before we leave the gravesite, Mary sings Mother's favorite gospel hymn ... Mary's lovely voice rises and lingers in the air, and… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
Those young ones who want to try military jihad are facing a triple issue. First of all, they are missing the point… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“When I was nineteen years old, I discovered a collection of books in the Harvard library written by Jacob Boehme. Do you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I… — Roger Cardinal Copy Share Image
I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
“True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other… — Titus Burckhardt Copy Share Image
“Behind these eyes there is a girl trapped within her pain – a girl feeling all the emotions of anger and sadness.… — Chimnese Davids Copy Share Image
“This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
I always believe you have to show the symbolism of a civilization, whether it be the cave drawings or somebody drawing in… — Stanley Greene Copy Share Image
A plastic bag charge is far from representing mere climate change symbolism. It is a clarion call to us all to alter… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
Caught in a racial uproar, people make all sorts of promises to make amends. Whatever they do tends to be heavy on… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“There is more to love than what is written on the pages of romance books. There is more to love than pictures… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I like churches and Catholic symbolism, and although the art at the Vatican is overwhelming to see, I appreciated it even as… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“The Earth, dost thou say? What has the Earth ever realized, that drop of frozen mud, whose Time is only a lie… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
“It has been said that the first black presidency was mostly “symbolic,” a dismissal that deeply underestimates the power of symbols. Symbols… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The notion that an image is a scale model of something else (say, a horse) requires a different set of mental events… — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
The symbolism of certain foods trip the nostalgic wire in all of us, whether the context is cultural heritage or geographic location. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
The sustaining fantasy of Nolan's Batman films - which does chime uncomfortably with Romney -is that the excesses of finance capital can… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
