Symbols Quotes - Page 23

• Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Consciousness

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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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• It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Hero, Mean, Reality

  Pier Paolo Pasolini, Laura Betti (1989). “Pier Paolo Pasolini: a future life”

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• Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

  Nicolas Cage

  Tattoo, Soul, Inward

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• I'll never accept that I'm a sex symbol. That will mean that someone is a bit too fond of himself. If it happens, I think it's certainly going to be odd. People shouldn't see me as a sex symbol. I'm really just Henry. I'm just telling a story. I could be playing an incredibly unpleasant character who's not sexually attractive at all in my next movie. So I've no expectations at all.

  Henry Cavill

  Sex, Character, Mean

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• A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Emotional, Perception, Cinema

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 176), 1986.

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• The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

  Pope Francis

  Ornaments, Mystery, Sin

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• A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Missionary, Argument

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.7, Editora Dracaena

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• In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Nature, Math, Science

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• Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

  Dennis Potter

  Personality, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Moving, Community

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• A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Party, Elephants, Two

  "Family Guy". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many symbols that teach us the meaning of life. We have a saying that the white man sees so little, he must see with only one eye. We see a lot that you no longer notice. You could notice if you wanted to, but you are usually too busy. We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and commonplace are one…We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Spiritual, Heart, Eye

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• Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Heart, Beloved

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.16, Editora Dracaena

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• When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

  Peter Lynch

  Children, Investing, Chance

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside of me going 'Yay! I'm a sex symbol!'

  Marina Sirtis

  Girl, Sex, Brain

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Sex, Faces, Jagger

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• Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

  Dion Fortune

  Hands, Mind, Tools

  Dion Fortune (2000). “The Mystical Qabalah”, p.28, Weiser Books

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• I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.

  M. C. Escher

  Thinking, Ideas, Facts

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• To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals have no corners. With us, the circle stands for togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives and friends united in peace while the sacred pipe passes from hand to hand. To us this is beautiful and fitting, symbol and reality at the same time, expressing the harmony of life and nature.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it.

  Marilyn

  Sex, Men, Made

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• In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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• Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols of unadultered nature.

  Rene Dubos

  Believe, Men, Vegetables

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