Symbolism Quotes
79 quotes by 75 authors
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th…
— Aberjhani
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One of the reasons that metaphor and symbolism are important in books is because they are also important to life. Like, for example say you're…
— John Green
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Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth…
— Stephen King
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All nature is a vast symbolism: Every material fact has sheathed within it a spiritual truth.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As…
— Kevin Martin
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Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.
— Grant Morrison
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Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games…
— John Fowles
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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get…
— Ray Bradbury
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After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.
— Sigmund Freud
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I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only…
— Carl Jung
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The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike…
— Theodor Adorno
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Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible…
— Henri Bergson
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In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort…
— Roman Jakobson
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For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally…
— Maurice Ravel
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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without…
— Eric Temple Bell
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The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its…
— Alice Bailey
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What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the…
— Mark Steyn
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