Quotes About Symbolism

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Dreams have a long history of delivering messages. At the very least they have been considered meaningful and mysterious.

To the Reader" As you read, a white bear leisurely pees, dyeing the snow saffron, and as you read, many gods lie among lianas: eyes of obsidian are watching the generations of leaves, and as you read the sea is turning its dark pages, turning its dark pages.

Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain some sort of message to be decoded...

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Ein Pferd symbolisiert fünf Attribute, die ein Mann ständig begehrt: Selbstvertrauen, Entschlossenheit, Stärke, Kraft und Stärke.

He asked that beautiful Yogini in his lucid dream. What do my five fingers represent? Yogini smiled at him, and said. Your body, as well as everything in this Universe, is composed of five elements, Deodatta. Your five fingers represent these five elements. Your thumb represents Agni or Fire, Index finger for Vayu or Air, middle finger for Gagan or Space, ring finger for Prithvi or Earth, and little finger for Aap or water.

Pour moi, un cheval symbolise les cinq attributs qu'un homme désire constamment: la confiance, la détermination, la potency, la puissance et la force.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

The gun is a magic instrument, converting children to numbers.

As the sign of a deeper truth, metaphor was close to sacrament. Because the vastness and richness of reality cannot be expressed by the overt sense of a statement alone.

I approach Jung as if he were an alchemist, the latest in a long tradition of spiritual teachers.

It had a tapestry on the wall that showed a king spearing someone's idea of a lion.

She wore a wedding ring (as did he) and a small gold cross at her neck, but a current of wayward sensuality had been unmistakable in her, making these symbols seem apotropaic.

I think what you wear on Halloween is important. It says something about you--who you are and what you want to be. There's got to be a reason so many girls go around dressed as princesses and witches.

I was the glass ballerina or the knife.

When we feel safe, when we feel we are with someone who basically agrees with us about the symbolic universe, we let down our defenses, confident that our companion understands the symbols that are usually wall up, and will act appropriately.

Maybe even the smallest places mean something.

His eyes I saw too. Large and profound, they seemed to increase in depth as the dark fell on them, then to resurface as the lighthouse beam caught them again, as if symbolising in rapid sequence the constant recurrence of night and day.