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Symbolic Meaning Quotes

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Rene Magritte
Symbolic Meaning, People, Looks

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.

David Mamet
Symbolic Meaning, Perception, Tragedy

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.

Charles Alexander Eastman
Religious, Names, Symbolic Meaning
Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.14, World Wisdom, Inc

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

Ang Lee
Men, Symbolic Meaning, Mysterious
"Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Daniel Goleman
Art, Emotional, Symbolic Meaning
Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.314, Bantam

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