There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who… — Nur Muhammad Taraki Copy Share Image
Not everyone agrees the bears should be protected. Hunters, oil interests, even the state of Alaska has questions about the effects protection… — Sam Champion Copy Share Image
Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. Ifwe… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the… — Noma Bar Copy Share Image
The central symbol for Canada-and this based on numerous instances of its occurrence in both English and French Canadian literature-is undoubtedly Survival,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I am proud that for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, I am raising the flag of such a people,… — Nur Muhammad Taraki Copy Share Image
The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the… — Ralph Levy Copy Share Image
A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I must confess the language of symbols is to me A Babylonish dialect Which learned chemists much affect; It is a party-coloured… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has now become a status symbol among the rich to say that you got ripped off by Bernie Madoff, because everybody… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“For all its complexity, however, astrology remains fundamentally simple. It offers a time-honored system of symbols that sum up key aspects of… — Anne M. Nordhaus-Bike Copy Share Image
When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are… — Sharman Apt Russell Copy Share Image
Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Rather than trying to recover and maintain a tradition that links back to the past (and former glories), Chaos Magick is an… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger?… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The honor you have given us goes not to us as a crew, but to ... all Americans, who believed, who persevered… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Making the logo twice the size is often a good thing to do, because most advertisements are deficient in brand identification. Showing… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
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