S Quotes
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“Symbol sometimes of the Devil,sometimes of the Risen Christ, no animal is more untrustworthy than the cock.”
“Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.”
Source: Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess
“Symbolic interactionists are convinced that the self is a function of language. Without talk there would be no self-concept. "We are not born with senses of self. Rather, selves arise in interaction with others. I can only experience myself in relation to others; absent interaction with others, I cannot be a self- I cannot emerge as someone. To the extent that we interact with new acquaintances or have nover conversations with significant others, the self is always in flux. This means there's no "real me"- an etched-in-stone Em Griffin inside my body waiting to be discovered or set free.”
Source: A First Look at Communication Theory
“Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.”
“Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.”
“Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.”
“Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.”
Source: On Television
“Symbolically, emerald brings a sense of clarity, renewal, and rejuvenation, which is so important in today's complex world.”
Source: Color - Messages & Meanings: A Pantone Color Resource
“Symbolically meaningful (and symbolically insignificant), glass intensifies all the contradictions at play in contemporary furniture: the inability of people to determine their own condition and destiny (Baudrillard, 2005: 42). By promising proximity, intimacy and transition (while at the same time promoting distance, detachment and immobility), glass reproduces in the microcosm of the domestic ambience the inequalities at work within the macrocosm of contemporary society. The happy ending embedded in its discourse is thus retracted by its ‘see- but- don’t- touch’ aesthetic quality.”
Source: Baudrillard for Architects
“Symbolically, what the rabbis say is that at Passover, what we have to do is try to get rid of our hot air - our pride, our feeling that we are the most important people in the whole entire world and that everything should revolve round us.”
“Symbolism erects a facade of respectability to hide the indecency of dreams.”
“Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.”
“Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.”
Source: Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect
“Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.”
Source: The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
“Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.”
“Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.”
“Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right dictionary, you could read Nature itself. It was hardly surprising to find philosophers using the symbolism of their time to interpret knowledge that came from a mysterious source.”
Source: Northern lights
“Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.”
Source: Camino Real
“Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.”
“Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.”
“Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.”
“Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.”
Source: More Memories
“Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.”
“Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.”
Source: The Mystical Qabalah
“Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.”
Source: Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
“Symbols fell from her lips like glowing glimmers of smoke and every star in the sky winked out.”
Source: Wicked Saints
“Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.”
Source: Mary Robinson: A President With a Purpose
“Symbols,” Langdon said, “in no way confirm the presence of their original creators.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.”
“Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.”
“Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.”
Source: Putting My Foot in it
“Symbols of productivity ARE NOT productivity.”
“Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.”
“Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.”
“Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection”
“Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.”
Source: Cosette
“Symmetry is for God, not for us.”
Source: Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel
“Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.”
“Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.”
Source: Yes Please
“Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.”
“Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference, and based also on the face of man; whence it happens that symmetry is only wanted in breadth, not in height or depth.”
Source: Pensées
“Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.”
Source: Thoughts
“Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it.”
“Symmetry may have its appeal but it is inherently stale. Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation.”
Source: A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe
“Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.”
Source: Symmetry
“Symons remarked that the most common and unhelpful illusion plaguing those who came to see him was the idea that they ought somehow, in the normal course of events, to have intuited long before they had finished their degrees, started families, bought houses and risen to the top of law firms - what they should properly be doing with their lives. They were tormented by a residual notion of having through some error or stupidity on their part missed out on their true calling.”
“Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.”
“Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.”
“Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.”