Ambiguous Quote by Umberto Eco Download Open image “The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.” — Umberto Eco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguous Elusive Gains Significance Symbols
We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Symbols have power and meaning and can mean different things to different people at different times and in different contexts. — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“Far more powerful than religion, far more powerful than money, or even land or violence, are symbols. Symbols are stories. Symbols are pictures, or items, or ideas that represent something else. Human beings attach such meaning and importance to symbols that they can inspire hope, stand in for gods, or convince someone that he or she is dying. These symbols… — Lia Habel Copy Share
Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
“…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume of organized information to be fed in. The success of a metaphor is a function of the sociocultural format of the interpreting subjects; encyclopedia. In this perspective, metaphors are produced solely on the basis of a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ideas, which, without being contradictory, are yet very different: on the one hand it means what is familiar and agreeable, and on the other, what is concealed and kept out of sight. Unheimlich is customarily used, we are told, as the contrary… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions of our world. But what is critical to note here is that, however ambiguous our images, the universe itself remains whole and is manifestly not fracturing into schizophrenic shards. It is this tantalizing wholeness and the… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
