#symbols

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A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.


Clifford Geertz


#religion #society #symbolism #symbols #men

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


#myth #omens #symbols #death

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.


John B. S. Haldane


#arousing #better #description #emotion #fact

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.


Tom Peters


#best #every #exception #leaders #level

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.


Lyndon B. Johnson


#failure #guns #human #rockets #symbols

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.


Diana Wynne Jones


#although #blurred #clear #colour #could

This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.


Kenny Marchant


#america #anniversary #celebrate #country #dear

Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.


Peter Redgrove


#meaning #nature #reality #symbols #life

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

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.


Origen


#became #been #clearly #fathers #him