The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
Freya StarkTags: symbol
The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature.
Carlos FuentesTags: language symbol experiment phenomenon
Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language is internally contradictory and has no fixed meaning.
Naomi WolfTags: symbol
No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.
George SteinerIt is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.
James N. PowellTags: symbol
Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.
Alan D. WolfeltAnyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid?
Alex FlinnArtistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.
Rollo MayTags: art myth existentialism symbol
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: truth beauty symbolism beautiful symbols symbol kurt-vonnegut sometimes breakfast-of-champions
The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions.
It is the one true and perfect symbol of the universe.
And it is the one most accurate symbol of you.
Spread your arms in an embrace, throw your head back, and prepare to receive and send coordinates of being. For, at last you know—you are the navigator, the captain, and the ship.
Tags: universe self direction you ship person directions captain symbol one all receive compass-rose coordinates entity navigator rays send the-universe
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