Symbols Quotes - Page 2

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

I'm not a sex symbol.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.