Danger Quote by Patrick D. Miller Jr

“Symbolism is the science of understanding the relations between the multiple levels of reality.”

— Huston Smith

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

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

— Anil Jain

“Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.”

— Milan Kundera

“Far more powerful than religion, far more powerful than money, or even land or violence, are symbols. Symbols are stories. Symbols are pictures, or…

— Lia Habel

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

— Oscar Wilde

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction…

— Max Black

“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

“Maps, contour maps and all maps, intrigue us for the metaphors that they are: tools to give us a sense of something whose truth…

— Zia Haider Rahman

“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

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

— Saint Augustine

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles