Symbols Quotes - Page 11

• The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Deterioration, Spirit, Natural

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• The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light ofthe past for the purposes of the future

  John Maynard Keynes

  Past, Light, Together

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography”

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• The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Justice, Lines

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1964). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: Human destiny”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

  W. H. Auden

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• All things are symbols.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  All Things

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.852, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Heart, Intellect

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• We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  World, Want, Who We Are

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• Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

  Manly Hall

  Men, Symbolism, Language

  Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• The Wall was the actual symbol of a defeat, of inferiority.

  Stefan Heym

  Wall, Inferiority, Defeat

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• I remember at one point being in fellowship, and everyone used to wear the fish symbol; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, 'Dad, why don't you wear that at work?' And he said, 'Your religion should be in your actions.' He set a great, great example.

  Hugh Jackman

  Christian, Dad, Father

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• We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. Faith means to believe in something 100% without a doubt, and to doubt our own knowledge can seem like the most frightening thing that can happen to us.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Mean, Doubt

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.

  Yoko Ono

  Pain, Parent, Hungry

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had it easy in North America, where negative myths prevail. Fear-based stereotypes and use of public lands for cattle ranching have resulted in Mother Nature's dogs being aggressively persecuted to the point of near extinction.

  Zoe Helene

  Loyalty, Mother, Running

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• I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  New York, Thinking, Symbolism

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• Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

  David Duchovny

  Sex, Hair, Firsts

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• It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Race, Storm

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• In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by thehuman voice,--take the sound of a bugle in a summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speak without satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts in their native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I can understand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Night, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Wine, Reality, Suffering

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1969). “Building the Earth: And The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification”

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• It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops stroking you. Big business gives you a good stroke. And it's one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job... Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be? Forget that bald eagle. The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting, and seated on a chair next to him, the Statue of Liberty jerking him off. That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America.

  George Carlin

  Country, Uncles, Jobs

  "George Carlin... It's Bad for Ya!", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.

  Isak Dinesen

  Wall, Simple, Hands

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• Burt Reynolds, great sex symbol of the movies, who said, I owe it all to one great part. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Sex, Dinner, Said

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• 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.

  Lewis Mumford

  Enough, Concentration

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• You may not think I'm a sex symbol, but I became a father at the age of 48. Now young people think of me as a mini-folk hero because it's difficult for them to believe a man of my age is sexually active.

  Bob Newhart

  Sex, Father, Hero

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Dream, Memorial, President

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• We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

  Pope Paul VI

  Heaven, Earth, Way

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