Degeneration Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

— Sigmund Freud

“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

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

— Jack Kerouac

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 think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it,…

— Sarah Charlesworth

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations…

— Manly Hall

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

— Stephen King

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

— Margot Asquith

“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.”

— Huston Smith

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so…

— Carrie Coon

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older…

— John Schlesinger

I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to…

— Ray Bradbury