Expression Quote by Albert Pike

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

— Trevor Paglen

All things are symbols.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

— Sir John Woodroffe

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

— Thomas C Foster

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of…

— William Butler Yeats

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with…

— Haruki Murakami

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

— George Edward Woodberry

“True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics,…

— Titus Burckhardt

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

— Anonymous

“Far more powerful than religion, far more powerful than money, or even land or violence, are symbols. Symbols are stories. Symbols are pictures, or…

— Lia Habel