Believe Quote by Gene Wolfe

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into…

— Gene Wolfe

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

— Sigmund Freud

“Symbols are more real than the things and ideas they represent”

— Anil Jain

I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or…

— Richard Diebenkorn

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

— Thomas C Foster

“Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves.”

— don Jose Ruiz

Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds…

— Mary Robinson

I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is…

— M. C. Escher

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and…

— Max Heindel

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

— Mary Pratt

Things are symbols of themselves.

— Allen Ginsberg