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In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of…

— Cesare Pavese

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Nature is the symbol of Spirit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

— Thomas Carlyle

The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and,…

— Charles Baudelaire

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the…

— Marcel Proust

It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at…

— Cornell Capa

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares…

— Charles Baudelaire