Best Symbolic Quotes
221 Symbolic quotes by 200 unique authors
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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
— Albert Einstein
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Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the…
— Carl Jung
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We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold…
— Sigmund Freud
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The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
— Boris Pasternak
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Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
— Pierre Bourdieu
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The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and…
— Osama bin Laden
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Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.
— Carl Jung
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One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.
— Anish Kapoor
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Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
— Thom Mayne
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Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
— Norman Thomas
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On the rare occasions when our dreams succeed and achieve perfection - most dreams are bungled - the are symbolic chains of scene and images…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
— Michael Graves
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols,…
— Alfred Korzybski
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In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who…
— Georg Simmel
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I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel…
— Richard Avedon
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I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
— Sebastiao Salgado
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Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as…
— Angela Carter
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When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as…
— Kenneth Burke
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Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is…
— Pierre de Coubertin
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After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat.…
— Richie Ashburn
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