#symbol

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#antiquity #back #basic #because #eternal

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#largely #revelation #symbols #written

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#best #bit #control #could #face

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#action #against #america #appropriate #blue

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#controversy #i #i think #important #issues

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#broader #countries #european #european countries #expression

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie. ↗

— Veronica Lake

#sex #sex symbol #symbol #zombie

The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#nominalism #reality #symbols #art

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beauty #breakfast-of-champions #kurt-vonnegut #sometimes #symbol

Light is the symbol of truth. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#symbol #truth