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Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.
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The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
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XXI. But Arnold Bros (est. 1905) said, This is the Sign I give you:
XXII. If You Do Not See What You Require, Please Ask.
From The Book of Nome, Regulations v. XXI-XXII
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The signifieds butt-heads with the signifiers
and we all fall down slackjawed to marvel at words
while across the sky sheet impossible birds
in a steady illiterate movement homewards.
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Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
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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
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It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting. There may be a time when this symbol means something treacherous and terrible, rather than something noble and literate.
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Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
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Sometimes symbolism is too obvious.
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I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.
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My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.
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The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.
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Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
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Nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.
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cornuto," a hand signal representing horns that is an ancient satanist symbol.
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If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!
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No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.
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It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them.
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It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil, of love that overcomes hatred, of life that defeats death.
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To Him who has sense, a sign is enough
For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.
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Things are symbols of themselves.
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[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.
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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.
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that his gesture was symbolic, as Serena said. But symbolic of
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A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
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Point the way,' he was talking in metaphorical terms. This pointing-hand gesture - with its index finger and thumb extended upward - is a well-known symbol of the Ancient Mysteries, and it appears
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The initiate, however, uses a symbol-system differently; he uses it as an algebra by means of which he will read the secrets of unknown potencies; in other words, he uses the symbol as a means of guiding thought out into the Unseen and Incomprehensible.
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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
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When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery.
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The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.
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The sign stopped me
or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.
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Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
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Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
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Something on his, and he held up a hand to indicate
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Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.
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What is that?" I asked, pointing at the ceiling.
Part of me didn't expect Aiden to answer, but he did. "It's Phoebe's symbol."
"Phoebe? Obviously you don't mean a Charmed one."
He snorted.
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn.
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I must confess the language of symbols is to me
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned chemists much affect;
It is a party-coloured dress
Of patch'd and piebald languages:
'T is English cut on Greek and Latin,
Like fustian heretofore on satin.
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The symbol of the revolution. The Mockingjay.
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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Signs don't shout; they whisper.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.
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Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.
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I cannot now think symbols less
than the greatest of all powers whether they are used consciously by
the master of magic or half unconsciously by their successors, the
poet, the musician, and the artist.
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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.
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Iconography, good iconography, strives to convey invisible reality in a visible form.
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A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.
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We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.
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Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live.
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A Status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.
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The origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.
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been a signature
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded by the spirit of hierarchy (or moved by the sense of order)/and rotten with perfection.
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It is war now, and armies need symbols.
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The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
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Signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.
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This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or psychological principles and powers that are of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and that are everywhere.
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Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.
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Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.
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I trust the symbol that is arrived at in the making of the painting. Meaningful symbols aren't invented as such, they are made or discovered as symbol later.
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I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
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The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.
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The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.
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Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.
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The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.
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The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.
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The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'
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A child isn't a symbol, it's a child! It needs applesauce and, and, and playpens and an ass-load of other things we can't provide while we're on the goddamn lam!
Just to be clear. Your exact words to me were: "Please shoot it in my twat."
Yeah. I know.
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The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
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Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign - the starry eye.
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The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?
In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?
Or is the use its life?
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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.
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The central signified, the original or transcendental signified, is never absolutely present outside a system of differences. The absence of the transcendental signified extends the domain and the interplay of signification ad infinitum.
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For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.
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Office Signs are glamorous yet subtle indicators, which reminds us who are who and what is what.
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The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.
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The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.
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The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature.
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Mercury. Lead. Antimony. A cresent moon sits at the nape of her neck; and Egyptian ankh near her collarbone. There are other symbols as well: Norse runes, Chinese characters.
It is part of who I was, who I am, and who I will be.
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If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
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Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.
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[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.
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The thought is merely a sign, as the word is merely a sign for the thought.
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
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Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness.
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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
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The world was full of signs. One needed only to know how to see and interpret them.
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It's call a Triquetra, the balance of the mind, body and spirit. A Celtic symbol. - Evan
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Signs form a language, but not the one you think you know.
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A red eight-sided sign always means:
A) Stop.
B) Go.
C) Danger! Red octogons ahead!
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Signposts are our intuition asking inner wisdom to be set free.
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He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window
universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years.