#symbol

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#american #attackers #buildings #cause #collapse

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. ↗

— Graham Greene

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more. ↗

— John Hench

#anymore #bad #being #feeling #keep

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself. ↗

— Jim Henson

#bag #believe #create #into #itself

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bit #consolations #contempt #false

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation. ↗

— Eric Holder

#cannot #eliminating #head #importance #know

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#complete #enough #familiar #heavenly #images

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#book #every #great #great ideas #human

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#emotion #inability #restrain #retain #self