Symbols Quotes

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

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.

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

If it's just a symbol, then to hell with it !

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

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.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Things are symbols of themselves.

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

I believe in status symbols.

As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

Poetry is statement of a series of equations, with numbers and symbols changing like the changes of mirrors, pools, skies, the only never-changing sign being the sign of infinity.

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

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.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

Mitterrand had a sense for symbols, and he was the first Socialist president since 1958. He wanted to show that there is historical continuity, a connection with the great figures of French history.

Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

All things are symbols.

Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

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.