Symbolic Quotes - Page 10

• 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.

  Diane Ackerman

  Weed, Hair, Color

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• The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.

  Robert Irvine

  Bread

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in Christian religious art.

  Manly Hall

  Christian, Religious, Art

  Manly P. Hall (2003). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.123, Penguin

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• That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Dream, Language, Being Human

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who ordinarily I respected a lot; Philip Berrigan; the guy who teaches at Princeton still - I can't remember his name. And they were saying - well, they were saying, really, what Arthur Koestler had people saying on "Darkness at Noon." The means were unfortunate and, sadly, someone died, but the end is what is important and this was a great symbolic - something or other - sign against the war in Vietnam.

  Nat Hentoff

  War, Mean, Names

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

  Hugh Evans

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  "Highlighting the Plight of the Poor" by Hugh Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2011.

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• There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Political, Flying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [My poems] of course, it's symbolic, in the way that things in a poem can be - that is, pointing to something beyond its mere ordinary meaning, while also retaining all the qualities of that ordinary meaning. In other words, it's a bear, but it's also suggesting something else, just by virtue of the attention to it. But it's not "symbolic" in that way we are taught to think about things in poems.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Thinking, Quality, Ordinary

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread, into some boring version of what we already know. So what you say is true, in that the bear is a kind of parallel to the speaker, or imagined as such, but also very different. So if it's a symbol it is - ahem - a polysemous one.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Different, Bears, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It [9/11 tragedy] was the spectacle, what al-Qaeda gets its main power from - why their terrorism truly earns the word "acts." They are very theatrical, always - the simultaneous violence, the grandiose, symbolic gestures (the number 911, "United" and "American" flights, the World Trade as target etc). And then its aftermath.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Numbers, Tragedy, Aftermath

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or another Great Wall. But these buildings haven't withstood the test of time because of their building quality. They stand tall because they have a symbolic value, they represent a culture.

  Zhang Xin

  Wall, Pyramids, Quality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

  Rene Magritte

  Symbolic Meaning, People, Looks

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• It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Ideas, Religion

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.50, Broadway Books

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• Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

  Edmund Leach

  Men, Beast, Reason

  Edmund Leach (1989). “Claude Levi-Strauss”, p.102, University of Chicago Press

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• The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Fun, Unbearable, Spheres

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Job insecurity, debt servitude, poverty, incarceration and a growing network of real and symbolic violence have entrapped too many young people in a future that portends zero opportunities and zero hopes. This is a generation that has become the new register for disposability, redundancy, and new levels of surveillance and control.

  Henry Giroux

  Jobs, Zero, Real

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed as part of a broader historical and political attack on public values, civic literacy and economic justice. Crucial here is the need to engage how such an attack is aided and abetted by the emergence of a poisonous neoliberal public pedagogy that depoliticizes as much as it entertains and corrupts.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Justice, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Use, Cameras, Literal

  Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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• Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

  Joseph Campbell

  Narrative, Metaphor, Myth

  Joseph Campbell (2002). “The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion”, p.28, New World Library

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• We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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• Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground. This separation from the earth is more than symbolic, more than a physical removal - it has an emotional dimension as tangible as the wood, fabric, and steel that has transported you aloft.

  Stephen Coonts

  Emotional, Promise, Dreamer

  "The Cannibal Queen". Book by Stephen Coonts, January 1, 1992.

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• Man is in need if a symbolical life- badly in need. We only live banal, ordinary, rational or irrational things- but we have no symbolic life. Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life

  Carl Jung

  Men, Ordinary, Needs

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• What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.

  James T. Walsh

  Believe, Power, Media

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• Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.

  Regis Debray

  Thinking, Giving, Machines

  "Revolution in the revolution". Interview with Andrew Joscelyne, www.wired.com. January 1, 1995.

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