Science Quote by Huston Smith

“True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics,…

— Titus Burckhardt

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

— Anil Jain

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it,…

— Sarah Charlesworth

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so…

— Carrie Coon

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

— Mary Pratt

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations…

— Manly Hall

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

— Mark Tobey

“The true danger of all symbols, metaphors, and images (tangible, visible) is that they may reduce the irreducible reality that stands behind them all.”

— Patrick D. Miller Jr

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with…

— Haruki Murakami

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

— Jack Kerouac

“Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say…

— Albert Camus