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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.
Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
Here's the problem with downplaying the radical nature of decommodification: when you empty something of political content, politicians are free to wield symbols as they please.
Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.
More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but that's the point.
Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
I think it's certainly important that we don't have symbols in our society that are offensive to a segment and that arouse racial division.
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.
From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christian symbols, no Ten Commandments.
Honestly, I think if you don't have happiness and you don't have love in your life you can have all the money and all the symbols in the world and it won't make any difference.
I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
The mind reproduces itself by transmitting its symbols to other intermediaries, human and mechanical, than the particular brain that first assembled them.
I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.
Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
It is a real pleasure to collaborate with Frida Giannini and Gucci to celebrate one of the House's most elegant symbols: the horsebit.
A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.
You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.
I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.
There would be no value in worship services and symbols did they not, preserved in their Purity and Beauty, serve as aids to right living.
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.
I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater;
Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
