Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein Download Open image ““For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.”” — Ludwig Wittgenstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.” — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
“However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Absolute alterity, as long as it remains absolute, cannot be apprehended at all; there is, effectively, no such thing.” — Derek Attridge Copy Share Image
“A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is no word-for-word… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful thinking—symbols always matter.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
“Our problem today is that we no longer believe in things but in symbols, hence our life has passed over into these symbols and… — David R. Loy Copy Share Image
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is powerful- a symbol, a circle- and I know, I know, there could never have been another one.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.” — Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a _strange_ connection… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
