Quotes About Symbolism

I've got a fondness for rabbits.

Flags say something. You put a rainbow flag on your windshield, and you're saying something.

When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.

The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and hid in the bush as the time of initiation approached.

For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over reality, which is irreducibly random and senseless.

I like Church furniture.

There's no gift more classic and more beautiful than roses.

Persimmons are pretty present in a lot of Asian cultures, as gifts that you give to people.

On a show like 'Oz,' I was wearing Dickies and a cut-off shirt and a gold cross.

Eyeliner is a go-to for me, and gold has always been a color that I really like. It's reminiscent of a lion; it's a strong color.

Like catching a glimpse of the McDonald's golden arches after a night out, when I see the blue and white Boots sign in the distance I feel comforted.

Goldfish in Chinese restaurants are there to draw in the gold, the money.

All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire.

sometimes a digar is just a cigar

Parfois un cigar est seulement un cigar comme dit Freud, mais aussi Clinton !

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

The night is also a sun.

Have I been understood??Dionysus against the crucified one...

moral judgments can never be taken literally: literally, they always contain nothing but nonsense. But they are semiotically invaluable all the same: they reveal, at least to those who are in the know, the most valuable realities of cultures and inner states that did not know enough to "understand" themselves. Morality is just a sign language, just a symptomatology: you already have to know what it's all about in order to get any use out of it.

And then he says that Thibaut always referred to Twin Peaks as Cleopatra's Breasts.

Physical experience is the translation of phenomena into symbolic language, and the law is the creation of the wind or a symbol.