Able Quote by Paul Tillich

“Ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man... What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach,…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.

— Julia Penelope

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

— Lytton Strachey

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our…

— Maya Angelou

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

— George Henry Lewes

“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

Language is necessary. We express through it.

— Sanjay Mishra

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

— Sonia Johnson

“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability…

— Semanticist Wendell Johnson

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the…

— Alfred Korzybski