#symbol

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#nature #symbolism #nature

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in their underwear, talking about how they don't want to be a sex symbol. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bull #dudes #greased #hate #how

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#destiny #epic #experience #general #human

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. ↗

— Carl Andre

#essentially #marxist #matter #political #position

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#activities #age #choice #church #dry

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#attitude #becomes #contracted #everyone #eye

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. ↗

— Steve Israel

#any #attempts #ban #christmas #claus

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

#because #complex #different #distinctive #each

It's going to be a symbolic thing. But for me, they did enough. ↗

— Rosie Ruiz

#enough #going #me #symbolic #thing

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#bother #me #sex #sex symbol #symbol