Quotes About Symbol

The Ankh represents the connection all life has to that which has gone before, the umbilicus. It is the sign of life infused into humans from the divine spark and thence from human to human. The Ankh refers to that which is protected, renewed and vitalized; it is the descent of the eternal principle, the Atum, into the physical plane.

The peace sign is with two fingers not one.

Snakes have many forms, you know. They have not always been evil or poisonous - or at least, not only so. Just as desire has not always been evil. In ancient times, snakes were a symbol of healing. Of wisdom. They can be very beautiful.

Throughout history the cross stands as a symbol of protest and revolt; protest against all claims, whether by religious or political power, to absolute unquestioning control over human minds and bodies; revolt against all systems and ideologies, all regimes and institutions, which continue to push individuals and groups beyond the pale, outside the gate.

What else could we call it and our new palace but Dragon's Rest?

Kelipah, or "shell," is the symbol frequently used in Kabbalah to denote "evil" and the source of sensual desires in human nature. See Schochet, Mystical

A Snake And Skull

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By juxtaposing the two contrasting images, John has forged a new symbol of conquest by sacrificial death.

It served as a symbol of the opulence and prosperity of Detroit until the summer of 1967, when the 12th Street Riot kicked off the white flight to the suburbs and the city took its first steps toward ruination. The

silver coins had gone from being a convenient way to carry a valuable metal to a symbol in their own right. Coins were value you could carry about, which other people recognized the same way you did. They didn't need to be sheltered and fed like cattle, or ploughed and reaped like fields, and best of all they didn't die; their value persisted. They could be buried in times of trouble and dug up to spend later.

The Trump White House stood less for government and the push-pull of competing interests and developing policies, and more, in a brand-savvy world, as a fixed and unpopular cultural symbol.

Donald Trump became a symbol of the media's own self-loathing: the interest in and promotion of Donald Trump was a morality tale about the media.

man would transcend his insignificance only to the extent to which it is possible to make himself symbolic, to incarnate alive a symbol in his own soul, that immanence.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

silver fork (our crest, a fox rampant, almost handled and washed away

The snake was first of all a symbol of eternal life (like the moon), since each time it shed its skin it seemed reborn. It represented cosmic continuity within natural change—spiritual continuity within the changes of material life.

The lance or spear was the traditional weapon of the horseman, and it lingers to our own times as a symbol of the mounted knight. In 1939, the Polish cavalry, with ridiculous gallantry, carried lances into battle against German tanks.

Unleavened Bread... the emblem of the Israelites' suffering in Egypt and the symbol of the haste—that is, the joyous eagerness—which marked their departure. When we eat the Unleavened Bread on the Festival we, in a sense, eat the bread of sorrow with our toiling, suffering ancestors, and for the moment share the sorrow itself.

I am a true symbol and lover of adventures that involve the improvement of individuality as well as collectively.

The word 'metaphor' itself can be used in a non-literal way.

It is of course only through imagery, through metaphor and symbol, that we can imagine the new world that God intends to make. That is right and proper. All our language about the future, as I have said, is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist. The signpost doesn't provide a photograph of what we will find when we arrive but offers instead a true indication of the direction we should be traveling in. What

It took not only genius but considerable [70] chutzpah to see, and to say, that the symbol which spoke of the horrible 'justice' of Caesar's empire could now speak of the restorative justice of the true God.

You are a symbol—even if I am missed, so long as people can see you in the air, they'll feel safe." Because everyone knows I would not leave my consort in a city I didn't feel was protected against all harm. "Shit," Elena muttered. "I hate it when you make sense.