Creating Quote by Manly Hall

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

— Gertrud von Le Fort

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

— Saint Augustine

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an…

— Keith Haring

“The association of magic and cryptology was reinforced by other factors. Mysterious symbols were used in such esoteric fields as astrology and alchemy—where each…

— David Kahn

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily…

— Simone Weil

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of…

— William Butler Yeats

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

— Margot Asquith

By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly…

— Carl Jung

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the…

— William Baziotes

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

All things are symbols.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

— Gene Wolfe