Quotes About Symbolism

Maybe da Vinci didn't serve lamb in his painting of the Last Supper, but there was room for interpretation. Jesus himself was the lamb led to the slaughter.

Conscious symbolism governed medieval representation. Grammar, for instance, was pictured as an old woman with a knife and file to operate on students' mistakes. Rhetoric was an imposing woman whose dress was ornamented with the figures of speech.

Another example may also help us to appreciate the abstractness of numbers. Mathematically, is equal to . But the corresponding physical fact may not be true.

Man creates the link between Nature and Archetype.

Charat Singh was feeling kind, though he did not relax the grin which symbolized six thousand years of racial and class superiority.

How queer, the Hindus don't feed their cows although they call the cow "mother"!' Bakha thought.

1. Curved mirrors of symbolism metamorphoses. (Distortion of reality by imagination). 2. An indelible smile of the psyche, endowed with resentment for life. 3. Tears make the world transparent. 4. Insight anabolics are the basis of motivation. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

1. Inflation is a coma of frigid impotence, a coma is comical. 2. In the multidimensional symbolism of comic paradoxes, gadgets are nannies of children's illusions of selfishness. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

1. Sleep is the symbolism of the oracle performance, it shows the paradox of evil. 2. People are a race of egoists, and the deeper you plunge into the depths of philosophical reality, tearing apart its deceitful tissue of the film of eternity, your personality becomes exotic and alien. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Religion and culture are like a totem pole extending far underground, under the layers of the earth, of different eras of cultures and times, going far into the core of philosophy.

Sweet nectar of insight. You squeeze my heart and give healing. The sweet juice of awareness. The philosophical symbolism of paradoxes gives knowledge about life, a rebus of reality surrealism, deciphering which gives the nectar of insight.

The paradox is not a faceted, symbolic aphorism of the subconscious.

All kings will be reincarnated as lions and employees as flocks of sheep.

Designing a website, app, or logo is similar to designing a national flag. Each colour should have a meaning behind it. Or the colours should match the value you represent.

Some individuals decided to bring heaven to Earth by inventing the portraits of their god.

The fact that you can only find the monuments of Jesus next to the church shows how the state has separated itself from religion.

His mane is made of short rainbows.

But to reject, marginalize, trivialize, or be suspicious of the sacraments (and quasi-sacramental acts such as lighting a candle, bowing, washing feet, raising hands in the air, crossing oneself and so forth) on the grounds that such things CAN be superstitious or idolatrous or that some people might suppose they are putting God in their debt, is like rejecting sexual relations in marriage on the grounds that it's the same act that in other circumstances constitutes immorality.

Do not despise the small but significant symbolic act. God probably does not want you to reorganize the entire discipline or the entire world of your vocation overnight. Learn to be symbol-makers and story-tellers for the kingdom of God.

Your calling may be to find new ways to tell the story of redemption, to create fresh symbols tat will speak of a home for the homeless, the end of exile, the replanting of the garden, the rebuilding of the house.

The divine intention, as Paul saw it unveiled in the messianic events concerning Jesus, was to create a single worldwide family; and therefore any practices that functioned as symbols dividing different ethnic groups could not be maintained as absolutes within this single family.

Sahara traced the ink with a trembling finger before she bent to press her lips to the tattoo, her touch tender, her eyes dark with emotion. "I've branded you". "You did that a long time ago".

the psychoanalytic notion that going down on a man is symbolically similar to breastfeeding; that it is a regressive form of sexuality. (..) the notion that a woman who likes to perform fellatio is "really" in search of maternal succor (..). Perhaps a Freudian case might be made for the unconscious wish on some women's part to drink a man's semen in order to take into themselves the status the male is given in our society.

Three mysteries are grasped by no man: The mistletoe green between earth and sky, The sadness in a maiden's smile, The runes shaped by the changing moon.