Quotes About Symbolism

A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls.

Words The word used for ejaculation—baashkizige—is also used for shooting off a gun. The word used for condom—biinda'oojigan—means gun case. Millie entered these words into her notebook. Fascinating.

The more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.

What was it, to be dreamed of by a bear?

T]he Dollar is always too light, a genuine Holy Ghost, more precious than blood.

When I'm painting people in clothes I'm always thinking very much of naked people, or animals dressed.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

What I called jottings would not be a rendering of the text, not so to speak a translation with another symbolism. The text would not be stored up in the jottings. And why should it be stored up in our nervous system?

In order to avoid these errors, we must employ a symbolism which excludes them, by not applying the same sign in different symbols and by not applying signs in the same way which signify in different ways. A symbolism, that is to say, which obeys the rules of logical grammar—of logical syntax. (The logical symbolism of Frege and Russell is such a language, which, however, does still not exclude all errors.)

If a sign is not necessary then it is meaningless. That is the meaning of Occam's razor. (If everything in the symbolism works as though a sign had meaning, then it has meaning.)

Tautology and contradiction are, however, not senseless; they are part of the symbolism, in the same way that "0" is part of the symbolism of Arithmetic.

That ?, ?, etc., are not relations in the sense of right and left, etc., is obvious.

Mathematics is a method of logic.

Ebbene signor Meis,il destino di Roma è identico.I papi ne avevano fatto a modo loro,s'intende un'acquasantiera;noi italiani ne abbiamo fatto,a modo nostro,un portacenere.D'ogni paese siamo venuti qua a scuotervi la cenere del nostro sigaro,che è poi il simbolo della frivolezza di questa miserrima vita nostra e dell'amaro e velenoso piacere che essa ci da.

El jilguero canta en la jaulita colgada entre las cortinas de la ventana. ¿Siente quizá la primavera que se aproxima? Ay de mí, quizá la siente también el antiguo tronco de nogal con el que fue hecha mi silla, que ahora cruje con el canto del jilguero. Tal vez se hablan, con ese canto y con este crujido, el pájaro enjaulado y el nogal reducido a silla.

Roses denote grace.

But in the bare practical outlines, we are two writers, sitting at our desks, with starlings on our shoulders

Somehow, in our language and in our psyches, we have come to equate good with light and evil with darkness. The symbolism runs deep. We see it in our poetry, our religion, our songs, and our cultural mythology.

Crows can get us out of bed. And they can do a lot more than that for us if we allow them.

Allegories are told with a purpose whose possibility is lost Until a potato-eater appears and eats potatoes

Emily Dickinson would repeatedly draw on volcanic eruptions as metaphors for poetic expression.

A wreath of white daisies from the Dickinson meadow were the only flowers allowed.

Before I came to the city I cut off my hair. It was the first of many fatally symbolic gestures.

do botão luzia ou saquarema nasce um magnífico lírio saquarema ou luzia.