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By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly…

— Carl Jung

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

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and…

— Max Heindel

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

— Thomas C Foster

“A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is no word-for-word…

— Albert Camus

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

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

— Saint Augustine

The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but…

— Carl Jung

“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

“Symbols are more real than the things and ideas they represent”

— Anil Jain

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

— P.D. Ouspensky

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

— Kurt Vonnegut