Quotes About Symbolism

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

White envy of the black penis appears in various symbolic forms: the penchant for gun ownership, nuclear missiles, cigarettes (especially among white women feminists who smoke as a sign of liberation), and the Washington Monument. Even the chessboard becomes a symbolic racial battleground, with the black player allowed to move first on alternating black and white squares but the white player, naturally, always guaranteed to win.84

Beyond the actual words of God, and underneath the literal narrative of law, history, and even geography, Origen could discern timeless truths waiting to be pointed out and explained. This way of reading the Bible, called exegesis, would become standard during the Middle Ages. Indeed, the Middle Ages came to interpret just about everything morally, symbolically, or allegorically and sometimes all three.

No graven images may beWorshipped, except the currency.

It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

He hugged the thought that a great part of what he had invented was in the true sense of the word occult: page after page might have been read aloud to the uninitiated without betraying the inner meaning.

Split a young ash sapling a few feet down its trunk. At sunrise, pass the child through the cleft, three to nine times, against the sun. Then bind the tree and plaster the fissure with mud or clay. If the tree fares well, so will the child.

Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O: vowels,Someday I shall recount your latent births.

Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.

por poner un ejemplo que vale para cualquier otro sitio, las calles de Barcelona, que hoy frecuentan miles de fervorosos patriotas locales portando esteladas y señeras, se abarrotaron, con los padres y abuelos de esos mismos patriotas, y en mayor número que ahora, de banderas rojigualdas, brazos en alto, caras al sol y en España empieza a amanecer.

the miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork." "Why a pitchfork and not a scythe?" "Because Death reaps but the Devil harvests

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.

You can not write in the chimney with charcoal.

Poesy engraved on the ring Love engraved on my heart.

Christmas has become a public affirmation of the power and benignity of the state, to which we all make obeisance in the sybolism of the breath test ceremony.

Religious ceremonial nowadays provides less opportunity for bad language and sexual symbolism.

Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

The lion may eat straw like the ox, and the child put his head on the cockatrice' den; but will even then the light antelope be equal to the heavy plough? Will the gentle gazelle, even in those days, pull the slow wagon of ordinary occupation?

I'm a Sagittarius, born in the year of the rat, all of which is basically meaningless to me.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.