Allegory Quote by William Butler Yeats

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

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.

— Anonymous

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

— Gertrud von Le Fort

All things are symbols.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

— Thomas C Foster

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

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the…

— Thomas Carlyle

All religious expression is symbolism.

— Albert Pike

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

— Saint Augustine

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

In religion, symbols have always played a iconographic and ritualistic role. Different symbols might represent different theological ideas.

— Trevor Paglen