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I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.
Anselm Kiefer
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If ever I were to have a symbol attributed to me, it would be a heart, the outline!
Rudolph Valentino
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I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
Lena Horne
7.
Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness.
Sun Ra
9.
To me, locs are a symbol of strength and beauty, almost like a lion's mane.
Zendaya
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
Jacques Lacan
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
Thomas Carlyle
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Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.
Carl Jung
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The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
Barbara Mikulski
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Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
Raquel Welch
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
Hans Arp
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But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Ernest Holmes
21.
Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.
Iris Murdoch
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Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.
Mark Tobey
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I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.
Jude Law
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What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.
W. H. Auden
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My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.
Adolph Gottlieb
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Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
Thomas C Foster
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
Pat Robertson
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For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.
Diane von Furstenberg
30.
The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.
Anya Seton
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Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.
Emile M. Cioran
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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Oscar Wilde
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Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!
Meister Eckhart
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I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.
Ayn Rand
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If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.
Herbert Read
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A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
Charles Jencks
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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
Felix Frankfurter
39.
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.
Lewis Mumford
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Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language.
Mike Svob
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Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.
Virginia Woolf
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Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
44.
When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.
Timothy Leary
45.
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.
Marilyn Monroe
46.
The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.
Mary Pratt
47.
Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.
Friedrich Ebert
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A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt.
Carl Jung