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221 Symbolic quotes by 200 unique authors

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem… — Aimee Bender
What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse;… — Jurgen Habermas
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great… — Martin Luther
It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude… — Ai Weiwei
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. — Jerry Uelsmann
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. — Henry Williamson
In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all… — Pavel Florensky
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a… — Isabelle Eberhardt
When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is… — Joseph Campbell
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions — Roland Barthes
Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as… — Russell Brand
Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no… — Hilary Thayer Hamann
If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be. The house of the… — Boyd K. Packer
Like night dreams, stores often use symbolic language, therefore bypassing the ego and persona, and traveling straight to the spirit and soul who listen for… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA… — Robert Kanigel
The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of… — Stephen Wolfram
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore… — Dane Rudhyar
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the… — Kit Williams
It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out… — Carl Jung
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does… — John Green
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because… — Roman Jakobson
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of… — Alan Watts

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