The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers,… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I perceived that the 'thing' and the 'idea' were taken to be equivalents of feeling, and understood the lie of the world… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
“...all religions seek to approach the reality of God through symbols, and these symbols point to the mystery of human life, pushing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you.… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It's no one's fault to be born ugly, but, honestly, must it be worn as a symbol of pride? — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning ... — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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