Human condition Quote by Thom Mayne

There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there…

— Leonard Susskind

“My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward… 'Think what it must have been like for…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.

— Vladimir Putin

The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures to assume…

— Roger E. Olson

“An alternative — and better — definition of reality can be found by naming some of its components: air, sunlight, wind, water, the motion…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color…

— Federico Fellini

It's going to be a symbolic thing. But for me, they did enough.

— Rosie Ruiz

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

— William Gibson

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

— Roland Barthes