T Quotes
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“The symbolic religious myths produced by the obfuscated mind aren’t merely roundabout ways to refer to something literal, but the only pointers we have to a form of salvation.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.”
“The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?”
Source: Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
“The symbolism - and the substantive significance - of planting a tree has universal power in every culture and every society on Earth, and it is a way for individual men, women and children to participate in creating solutions for the environmental crisis.”
“The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.”
Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress
“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.”
Source: Animals and why They Matter
“The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would enable the first human voyage to another planet. It was a choice of fitting mythic power: to embrace the planet named after, rather than the madness ascribed to, the god of war.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.”
“The symbols and the gifts and the tools of Awakening are noticed everywhere once you have opened your heart to them. They are free and Freely Given. They come with blessings and with no cost or sacrifice. They come easily to a willing heart and open mind. Be not afraid of Love. Love comes as a Friend and the Holy Spirit is Friendly and Gentle.”
Source: Unwind Your Mind Back to God: Experiencing A Course in Miracles
“The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.”
“The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body”
Source: Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis
“The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man.”
“The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”
Source: The Poems of Herman Melville
“The symmetry of it all, or was it the emptied, seemingly ransacked neatness of his room, tied a knot in my throat. It reminded me less of a hotel room when you wait for the porter to help you take your things downstairs after a glorious stay that was ending too soon, than of a hospital room after all your belongings have been packed away, while the next patient, who hasn't been admitted yet, still waits in the emergency room exactly as you waited there yourself a week earlier.
This was a test run for our final separation. Like looking at someone on a respirator before it's finally turned off days later.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“The symmetry was perfect, each triangle a perfect replica of its neighbor. Cashews, hazelnuts, and blanched almonds peeked out of their baptism in caramel jam, a sea of creamy browns punctuated by green pistachios. The tart shell formed a precise circle of pastry around the caramel and nuts.”
Source: Sugar
“The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel, a play, or an opera can engage our emotions on behalf of people who are not only strangers to us, but who do not even exist! And a person whose emotions cannot be so aroused is not behaving normally.”
“The sympathy based on motives, indeed, leaves its point of the identity mark, in that the doubts, take place as a natural process, and lead to any determination. Such sympathy meets regret. The wise people keep them away from that.”
“The sympathy for the case is nice, but she’s sorry I’m upset? That’s not the same as apologizing for her actions or the garbage she said. She’s sorry I reacted the way I did.
Oddly enough, I needed to know that.”
Source: The Hate U Give
“The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.”
“The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.”
“The symphonic sounds of nature awaken every cell in my body and, in that moment, without a doubt, I am truly alive.”
“The symphony of his suffering very nearly brought her to orgasm.”
“The symphony of motivation, happiness, and self-improvement weaves the fabric of personal growth, creating a life rich in purpose and fulfillment. Staying motivated is an ongoing pursuit that draws strength from resilience and a profound connection to one's goals. Authentic happiness emerges from a life aligned with personal values, and the journey of self-improvement serves as the transformative vehicle towards continual growth. To be better and stronger necessitates a commitment to learning, the fortitude to navigate challenges, and the wisdom to recognize and distance oneself from toxic individuals and political ideologies, ensuring a trajectory of positive evolution and authentic well-being.”
“The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough.”
Source: Brain Droppings
“The symposium was a closed-doors, synod-style assembly of people who would never have mixed otherwise. My first surprise was to discover that the military people there thought, behaved, and acted like philosophers—far more so than the philosophers we will see splitting hairs in their weekly colloquium in Part Three. They thought out of the box, like traders, except much better and without fear of introspection. An assistant secretary of defence was among us, but had I not known his profession I would have thought he was a practitioner of skeptical empiricism. Even an engineering investigator who had examined the cause of a space shuttle explosion was thoughtful and open-minded. I came out of the meeting realising that only military people deal with randomness with genuine, introspective intellectual honesty—unlike academics and corporate executives using other people's money. This does not show in war movies, where they are usually portrayed as war-hungry autocrats. The people in front of me were not the people who initiate wars. Indeed, for many, the successful defence policy is the one that manages to eliminate potential dangers without war, such as the strategy of bankrupting the Russians through the escalation in defence spending. When I expressed my amazement to Laurence, another finance person who was sitting next to me, he told me that the military collected more genuine intellects and risk thinkers than most if not all other professions. Defence people wanted to understand the epistemology of risk.”
Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad. So there must be something in love because your chemicals do tell you something.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“The symptomatology of PTSD.
In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims. Again and again they relieve the life-threatening experiences they suffered, reacting in mind and body as though such events were still occurring. PTSD is a complex psychobiological condition.”
Source: The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment
“The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cure. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace — a gift of God, a message from the unconscious.”
“The symptoms of a writer who hasn’t found their way clear of the needs of Self yet are easy to spot. I should say the symptoms are easy for everyone else to spot, that is, and not so easy for the writer themself to see. You’ll see a writer who does not trust the characters to speak and move on their own, but has to puppeteer them; a writer who does not trust the reader to understand what’s written. One who must insert parentheticals in various forms to explain the work to the reader; flashbacks to explain; big black blocks of text on the page to explain; question-and-answer dialog between characters who aren’t in a courtroom; walk-and-talk characters with their mouths full of dialog of what the story is about; too many stage directions that make the script read like a novel…”
Source: ANATOMY OF A SCREENPLAY THIRD EDITION
“The symptoms of abuse are there, and the woman usually sees them: the escalating frequency of put-downs. Early generosity turning more and more to selfishness. Verbal explosions when he is irritated or when he doesn’t get his way. Her grievances constantly turned around on her, so that everything is her own fault. His growing attitude that he knows what is good for her better than she does. And, in many relationships, a mounting sense of fear or intimidation. But the woman also sees that her partner is a human being who can be caring and affectionate at times, and she loves him. She wants to figure out why he gets so upset, so that she can help him break his pattern of ups and downs. She gets drawn into the complexities of his inner world, trying to uncover clues, moving pieces around in an attempt to solve an elaborate puzzle.”
Source: Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
“The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.”
“The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.”
Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not
“The synchronicity found in nature extends to the rhythm and patterns in our relationships; it explains how random events can come together to achieve harmony, flow, and order. Similarly, social synchronicity plays a large role in the art of constructive communication by helping us understand how social patterns can positively impact our relationships.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“The syndicate was successful in including an officer and two other crew members in its plan. Sheikh employed old ways of enticing by wine, women and money to use them.”
Source: द गोल्ड सिंडिकेट
“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.”
“The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles”
Source: Critical Path
“The synergy between marketing and branding strategies creates a powerful force that propels schools forward, elevating their visibility, reputation, and impact within their communities.”
“The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.”
“The synonyme of usury is ruin.”
“The synopsis looked good,
the cover looked nice,
you opened the book
and began a new life.
You found a new home,
you met some new friends,
you kept on reading,
hoping it ould never end.
You danced through the pages,
you sang out the words
you felt all their joy,
and all their pain and hurt.
The pages cut your fingers,
and the words cut your heart,
like the author had a knife,
and was tearing your soul apart.
You laughed with the characters,
and with them, you cried,
you fell in love with them, too
but with them, you died,
and when the book reached its end,
and your broken heart couldn't heal,
you suddenly realized that
its
not
real.”
“The Synoptic gospels agree that after being baptized, Jesus was driven by the Spirit, to which he was newly sensitive, out into the desert to be tested or tempted (same Greek word) by Satan. [...] "Satan," originally not a proper name but a title, "the Adversary," was a servant of God, a kind of security chief who occasionally urged the Almighty to take a second look at his favorites about whose character the Satan harbored some doubts. [...] Thus, in the Gospels it seems only natural that Jesus, newly commissioned as God's Son, should be put through his paces by the Satan to determine whether he is really up to the job. That is the point of the taunt, "If you are the Son of God...." Does Jesus understand what that entails? In the same way, Luke will later (22:31-32) portray Satan, again in character, as demanding, as is his right, to sift the twelve disciples like wheat, the same task as the Baptist ascribes to the Coming One, and they fail the test. Peter unwittingly acts the role of the Adversary when he tests Jesus' resolve to go forward with the crucifixion (Mark 8:32-33). Satan becomes the enemy of God and the champion of evil only insofar as he becomes mixed with other ancient characters like Beelzebul the Ekronite oraclegod (Matt. 12:24, 26; 2 Kings 1:2), Leviathan the Chaos Dragon (Ps. 74:13-14; Rev. 12:3 ff.), and Ahriman the Zoroastrian antigod (2 Cor. 4:4; Luke 10:17-19).”
Source: The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?
“The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ's character and gives us a view of the 'son-ship' He modeled which flowed out of that Divine character."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]”
Source: The Journey Is the Destination: A Book of Quotes With Commentaries
“The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.”
Source: Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
“The syntax of prejudice—threaded into conversation with the perfect pauses and facial expressions—was like ciphers and spy codes. The meaning clear to those it was meant for. To everyone else, it was harmless scribbles. Easy enough to deny.”
Source: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors
“The syntax was self conscious, but the sentiment naked sincere in his mirror bright eyes.
In those mirrors I am altogether beautiful. Cordelia realized warmly.”
Source: Barrayar
“The Syntellect Hypothesis which is the main focus of this book, as its title suggests, refers to a phase transition of a complex intelligent system to self-awareness of a living, conscious superorganism when intellectual synergy of its components reaches threshold complexity to become one supermind. This metamorphosis is associated with emergence of higher-order self-awareness and dimensionality of a new consciousness structure. As a bio-species merging with its advanced technology, human-machine civilization is now on the verge of the Syntellect Emergence, becoming one Global Mind.”
Source: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution
“The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.”
Source: Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
“The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.”