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Symbols Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
- Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
- Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
- Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of…
- A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
- The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us…
- Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only…
- Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
- Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
- We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
- A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is,…
- An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams…
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- I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back to bed… — Antonio Banderas
- Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him… — Charles Baudelaire
- Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into… — Gael Garcia Bernal
- Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. — Ambrose Bierce
- Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock. — Jolene Blalock
- I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how… — Ben Affleck
- Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people… — John Boehner
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- I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol,… — David Bowie