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
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling… — John Hench 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
Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If you want a symbol of Roman power and strength look no further than the Praetorian or Imperial Guard. We could take… — Stephen Nichols Copy Share Image
I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
“Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols. — Al Nichol Copy Share Image
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity. — Frederick Franck Copy Share Image
In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around. — Miriam Schapiro Copy Share Image
News people were holding me up as a symbol of defiance to the boycott and I couldn't even run. — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world. — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
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