Symbolic Quotes - Page 2

• I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.

  William Gibson

  America, Interesting, People

  Entrevista con Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. 7 de septiembre de 2010.

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• Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

  Roland Barthes

  Vision, Age, Today

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• Hablar, pues, de una corriente eléctrica en los nervios, es utilizar una expresión tan simbólica como si comparásemos la acción del principio nervioso con la luz o el magnetismo.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Expresión, luz, corriente eléctrica

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• My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

  Dave Hickey

  Mother, Math, Games

  "Surfing into the Sunset". Interview with Sarah Douglas, www.vanityfair.com. October 24, 2012.

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• She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.

  Jack Johnson

  Dream, Art, Media

  Song: Rodeo Clowns

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• So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Oil, Choices, Gasoline

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• The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

  Roman Jakobson

  Running, Taken, Giving

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• Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.

  John Green

  Book, Reading, Winning

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• It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Reality, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.110, Princeton University Press

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• 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

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• The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is symbolic; it represents the five continents of the world, united by Olympism, while the six colours are those that appear on all the national flags of the world at the present time.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Blue, Yellow, White

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• Después de quince años enfrentándote a ellos (lanzadores), no consigues superarlos. Son retorcidos. Son los únicos jugadores que pueden hacer trampas. Hacen lanzamientos ilegales e introducen sustancias extrañas en la pelota. Pueden infligir dolor siempre que lo deseen. Y, son los únicos en el diamante que tienen terreno elevado. Eso es simbólico. Ya sabes lo que te dicen en una guerra: "Toma primero el terreno elevado".

  Richie Ashburn

  Pain, War, Player

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• What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present.

  Emory Douglas

  Character, Past, Creative

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• Creo que el mundo simbólico es el nudo de un problema para un artista

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, World, Problem

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• A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Doe, Materialistic, Regimes

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• Veo algunos temas recurrentes: cosas que parecen hilvanadas, algunas referencias simbólicas y canciones sobre algunas de las grandes cuestiones, como la muerte. También hay muchas referencias al tiempo.

  Tracy Chapman

  Canción, Tiempo, Juntos

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• Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them.

  Mary Douglas

  Congratulations, Condolences, Reality

  "Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo".

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• We are not entirely sure of the meaning of all of the symbolic stones and their placement. Neither Joseph Smith nor Brigham Young said too much about these. Brigham Young said, “Figures (symbols) are reduced to reality, and realities are exhibited by figures, and those who have the Spirit and understand, derive great comfort and consolation from that source.

  Loren C. Dunn

  Reality, Comfort, Stones

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• No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."

  Pearl S. Buck

  Life, Real, Father

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

  James R Newman

  Knowledge, Math, Talking

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1200, Рипол Классик

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• The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They are the incorporation of the need of their collectivity for a new birth of spirit. They call down the creative spirit; they summon forth the future-even if it be through their own death

  Dane Rudhyar

  Drama, Moon, Creative

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• Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

  Angela Carter

  Hope, Eye, Men

  Angela Carter (1998). "Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings", Penguin Group USA

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• I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

  Aimee Bender

  Birthday, Cake, Childhood

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• La novedad fue la fuerza simbólica de los objetivos atacados. Los atacantes no sólo provocaron físicamente el derrumbamiento de los edificios más altos de Manhattan, sino que también destruyeron un icono en el imaginario doméstico de la nación estadounidense.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Iconos, Target, Manhattan

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• Cuando se analiza el paso preconsciente a los conceptos, siempre se encuentran ideas que consisten en 'imágenes simbólicas'. El primer paso al pensamiento es una visión pintada de estas imágenes interiores cuyo origen no puede reducirse sólo y en primer lugar a la percepción sensual, sino que son producidas por un 'instinto de imaginar' y que son reproducidas por diferentes individuos de forma independiente, es decir, colectivamente... Pero la imagen arcaica es también la predisposición necesaria y la fuente de una actitud científica. A un reconocimiento total pertenecen también aquellas imágenes a partir de las cuales han crecido los conceptos racionales.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

  Letter to Markus Fierz, 1948.

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