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The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the "conventions" of the symbolic system.
— Talcott Parsons
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
— Michael Graves
What's it like here?There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones. — Hiedi Thomas Jennifer Worth
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.
— Veronica Roth
That story always seemed very symbolic to me ... Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.
— Kurt Tucholsky
The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.
— Sebastiao Salgado
Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves ... and other animals.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
— William Gibson
A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions— Roland Barthes
Remember, Shaw, that the power of the dagger lies not only in the visual, but also the symbolic.
— Carla Trueheart
The essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.
— Ernest Becker
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
— Malcolm Fraser
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.
— Francois Viete
Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.
— Roland Barthes
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance ... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.
— Henry Williamson
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
— Jerry Uelsmann
The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.
— Martin Jacques
Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
— Edmund Leach
Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.
— Laura Busche
I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill -a skill based in self-esteem. — Caroline Myss
The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
— Bernard-Henri Levy
I am pleased to have an enemy who is not symbolic.
— Charles Baxter
Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.
— Caroline Myss
The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.
— Boris Pasternak
It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical. Profound and beautiful truth!
— Aldous Huxley
Physical experience is the translation of phenomena into symbolic language, and the law is the creation of the wind or a symbol.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
— Junko Tabei
In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.
— Victor Hugo
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
— Joseph Campbell
Reality is symbolicof an unseen insanity — Carl-John X. Veraja
She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
— Rene Magritte
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
— Nancy Pearcey
Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.
— Wole Soyinka
It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.
— David O. Selznick
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
— Dave Hickey
There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them.
— Joel Stein
Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image.
— Sebastiao Salgado
Reputation is more than symbolic in Afghanistan; it is a commodity that is hard to restore once it has been damaged.
— Jenny Nordberg
Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.
— Neil Gaiman
Clothes are incredibly symbolic.
— Robin Givhan
All our knowledge is symbolic.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.
— Robert Neelly Bellah
It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.
— Andre Leon Talley
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
— Andrew Pyper
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious
— Edward F Edinger
while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.
— Ralph Ellison
Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.
— Alan D. Wolfelt
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
— Deepak Chopra
Dad was more into last impressions than first ones, which makes his death all the more symbolic.
— Cecelia Ahern
Rings were symbolic. Rings were in circles. Circles never ended, which is why they were symbols of eternity. No beginning no end.
— Chelsea M. Cameron
Standing is symbolic of life itself,Open space is just a distance between you and someone else — Mira Midha
Yet all myths are symbolic of some truth," she pointed out, "else they would not endure the ages.
— Melissa McPhail
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
— Norman Thomas
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
— Paul Tillich
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.
— Camille Paglia
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.
— Vartan Gregorian
Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater!
— Gilles Deleuze
The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.
— Mary Pratt
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
— Thomas E. Mann
A labyrinth is a symbolic journey ... but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.
— Rebecca Solnit
The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.
— Margaret Atwood
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
— Nate Silver
Nothing abstruse or ambivalent about it, not a speck of the metaphoric or the symbolic.
— Haruki Murakami
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
— Max Luthi
The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians.
— Richard Attias
The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.
— Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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