Symbols Quotes - Page 3
Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.74, Coyote Canyon Press
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
"Science and human values". Book by Jacob Bronowski, 1975.
Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.125, Macmillan
An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate (1984). “Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions”, p.156, Princeton University Press
Richard Realf, “Indirection”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.20, Library of America
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.7, Editora Dracaena
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.456, Library of America
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”
Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”
Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.192, Joseph Campbell Foundation
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.199
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
Jay McInerney (2014). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.54, A&C Black
