Symbols Quotes - Page 2

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”
Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.
"A Short History of Decay". Book by Emil Cioran, 1949.
Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.72, Ronin Publishing
Thomas Carlyle (1831). “Sartor Resartus: The life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in three books: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.152
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1965). “Selected essays, lectures, and poems”, Pocket Books
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Oscar Wilde (2015). “Salome”, p.148, Broadview Press
Interview, Life, July 1962
Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.777, Penguin
"Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p. 269), 1991.