A Quote by Margot Asquith

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Margot Asquith

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Imaginative Life Signposts Symbols

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Margot Asquith
English - Author
February 2, 1864 - July 28, 1945

Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

Tariq Ramadan

The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life inherent in symbols; so that it is wrong to say that a good language is important to good thought, merely; for it is the essence of it.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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 symbols, rule us.

Alfred Korzybski

I'm lucky I had signposts in my life. At important times, I got pointed in the right direction by particular circumstances.

Kerry Stokes

One main reason why the separate nature of the science of operations has been little felt, and in general little dwelt on, is the shifting meaning of many of the symbols used in mathematical notation. First, the symbols of operation are frequently also the symbols of the results of operations.

Ada Lovelace

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

Helen Vendler

The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.

Louise Bourgeois

When the truly great people discover that they have been deceived by the signposts along the road of life, they just shift gears and keep going.

Nido R Qubein

You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.

Rudolf Steiner

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.

Jorge Luis Borges

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

L. Frank Baum

I flee from symbols. I think those who don't want to solve problems go to the symbols. I'm looking for content.

Ayman Odeh

The key to meditation is focusing on specific symbols. The symbols are the chakras.

Frederick Lenz

There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.