Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live… — John Keats Copy Share Image
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images… — Mina Loy Copy Share Image
In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political… — Michael Waller Copy Share Image
I'm a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London - I love that team, I… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59,… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
It (jazz) isn't like it used to be. The guys aren't together. They're all separated. Individuals now. Bird was a symbol. It… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
“When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
What is a game like 'No Man's Sky,' really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Why take notes? The obvious reason is to remember. Visual note-taking translates what we hear into pictures that give context, color, and… — Tom Wujec Copy Share Image
You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
