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• I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

  Chino Moreno

  Religious, Thinking, Band

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• In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Two, Secret

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• I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  New York, Thinking, Skulls

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• I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophical, Views, Psychics

  Carl Gustav Jung (1977). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung”, Bollingen

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• The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Able, Transcendental

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Love, Want, Concrete

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• The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Religious, Cutting, Practice

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Mary Midgley

  Life, Death, Philosophy

  Mary Midgley (1998). “Animals and why They Matter”, p.27, University of Georgia Press

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• [Sigmund ] Freud did not under-stand that the dream is a highly creative act, written in the universal language of symbolism, and only secondarily does censorship distort those parts that the subject refuses to accept even in sleep.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Sleep, Creative

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• 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.

  Al Gore

  Children, Men, Creating

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• I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

  Miriam Schapiro

  Art, Quilts, Women

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• It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Order, Admitting

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.138, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

  Mark Steyn

  Fighting, Men, Texas

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• I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.

  Hassan Blasim

  Writing, People, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Religious, Betrayal, Tree

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• This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

  Dave Eggers

  Pain, Book, Boys

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.50, Vintage

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• In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

  Eric Kripke

  Running, Hero, Thinking

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in My Books?" If he didn't, then you could just be making all of this up. Does anyone really think this guy sat down and stuck all kinds of hidden meanings into his story? It's just a story.... But I think you are making all of this symbolism stuff up. I don't believe any of it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Believe, Book, Mean

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• It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Class, Trying

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• The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Stress, Escaping, Purpose

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.206, Rowman Altamira

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• I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so that you [Darn] Well Know There's A Symbol Here.

  Ursula Vernon

  Littles, Wave, Wells

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• A line partakes of the simplicity of a point more than does a surface; and a surface [partakes thereof more] than does a material object-as was evident. From this consideration of a point and a material object elevate yourself unto a likeness of True Being and of the universe; and by means of [this] quite clear symbolism [of a point] make a conjecture about what has been said.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Mean, Simplicity, Doe

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• Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Religious, Real, Practice

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a primal, violent level, and I think all of those things together are just great. They're the spice and ingredients in the menu of the horror movie, and I think that's why we'll be around for a long time.

  Robert Englund

  Thinking, Long, Intellectual

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

  Frank X. Barron

  Home, Average, Creative

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