Quote by Louis Menand

Things are symbols of themselves.

— Allen Ginsberg

“Signs are important because they can mean something other than themselves”

— Sean Hall

“At a certain stage every single thing can be a sign.”

— Colum McCann

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“I remind myself that not everything is a sign, that some things simply are what they appear to be and should not be analyzed,…

— Diane Schoemperlen

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is…

— Paulo Coelho

“Robertson began one lecture with the definition of a sign: “a thing that gives notice of something different from itself.” He next gave examples…

— Lynne Cheney

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

— Albert Camus

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

— Robert Browning

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify -…

— George Edward Woodberry

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement…

— Aristotle