Quote by Anil Jain Download Open image ““Symbols are more real than the things and ideas they represent”” — Anil Jain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“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 Copy Share Image
“Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful thinking—symbols always matter.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
“Our problem today is that we no longer believe in things but in symbols, hence our life has passed over into these symbols and… — David R. Loy Copy Share Image
“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Symbols are something [the writer] uses simply as a matter of course. You might say that theses are details that, while having their essential… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.” — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
“However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
