Nature Quote by Titus Burckhardt

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

— Huston Smith

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

— Anil Jain

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

— Stephen King

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

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

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

— Jack Kerouac

“Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful thinking—symbols always matter.”

— Scott Sigler

“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

Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts.

— J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

“[a] characteristic of a symbol is that it opens up levels of reality which otherwise are closed for us. [a symbol] also unlocks dimensions…

— Dynamics of Faith Paul Tillich

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are…

— Rollo May