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When language starts transcending materialism, one begins to speak of analogies instead of symbols.
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Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.
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You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.
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By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
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For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.
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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
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Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.
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All meaning comes from analogies.
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I also want the figurative like a painter who only paints abstract colors but wants to show that he does so because he chooses to, not because he can't draw.
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In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
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I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.
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Creative thought seems prone to flower in symbols before it ripens to fruit.
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Metaphors are a window into the soul and carry us across the boundary between the lower and higher selves, connecting us to the universal energy field and the collective consciousness.
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A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.
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All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols ... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
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A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.
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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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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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shows how fruitful analogies can be - not in proving points but in illustrating them, showing spiritual truths by means of material images.
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Know a man by his metaphors.
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In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.
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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
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The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.
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Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.
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What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.
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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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It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and beautiful truth!
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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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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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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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Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.
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As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.
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Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet.
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Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
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Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
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In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.
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When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.
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One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
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When I am very sad, I tend towards symbolism.
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Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry
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I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
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The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.
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It is this process of symbolization which, in certain hasheesh states, gives every tree and house, every pebble and leaf, every footprint, feature, and gesture, a significance beyond mere matter or form, which possesses an inconceivable force of tortures or of happiness.
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The abuse of symbolism is like the abuse of food or drink: it makes people ill, and so their reactions become deranged.
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How can it be expressed in anything but itself?
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The Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes so bright that it dazzles instead of revealing.
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The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.
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Picture the arrow; nothing but the arrow.
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When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.
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The quantity of meaning compressed into small space by algebraic signs, is another circumstance that facilitates the reasonings we are accustomed to carry on by their aid.
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The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.
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When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.
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... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative.
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I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
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The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness.
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The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
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A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.
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We must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.
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Metaphors convince at once or not at all.
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The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
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Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.
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Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.
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I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.
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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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Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.
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I am a symbol of my soul.
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In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.
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Similes are like metaphors.
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Make subtlety obvious.
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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
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Everything in life is a metaphor.
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With the manipulation of abstract
symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,
sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.
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The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
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Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.
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Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.
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Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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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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And it's only symbolism puts magic and meaning into anything. You of all people should know that. We can make love amongst the gods, or we can screw on a dirty mattress. It's our choice.
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Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.
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Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.
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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
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Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction.
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Through metaphor to reconcile the people and the stones.
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To transcend to a higher level, become the symbol of love and kindness.
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Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
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All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.
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How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling ... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.
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Remember, Shaw, that the power of the dagger lies not only in the visual, but also the symbolic.
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Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.
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The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed.
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I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.
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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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Reality is symbolic
of an unseen insanity