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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

I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual — Lady G

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. — Alex Haley

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

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality. — Anish Kapoor

That story always seemed very symbolic to me ... Yes, but I forget what it symbolised. — Kurt Tucholsky

But what Freud showed us ... was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia. — Jacques Lacan

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

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown. — Carl Jung

Our mathematics is the symbolic counterpart of the universe we perceive, and its power has been continuously enhanced by human exploration. — Mario Livio

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

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit. — Jack Vance

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions
— Roland Barthes

Never underestimate the mind of a schizophrenic for it is powerful and it is symbolic — Mk.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin

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

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. — Daniel Bell

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

When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good. — Wright Morris

the all too human need to conjure symbolic meaning from meaningless events. — Steven Erikson

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

An idea is an idea. It can be right or wrong. Let me say what I think. Don't seal my lips with your symbolic violence. — Tarif Naaz

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

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. — Ai Weiwei

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell

Reality is symbolic
of an unseen insanity — Carl-John X. Veraja

She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist. — Anish Kapoor

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

I can describe my books as I seem them as American, imaginative, symbolic. My literary ancestors are two other Calvinists, Hawthorne, and Melville. — James Purdy

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

Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates. — Bauvard

They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena. — Oscar Wilde

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

Some Albanians who have worn a veil say it creates a kind of freedom by giving them anonymity and symbolic invulnerability when outside the home. — Antonia Young

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

that his gesture was symbolic, as Serena said. But symbolic of — Garth Stein

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

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism. — Ralph Nader

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. — Nate Silver

Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page. — Mark Helprin

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 symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. — Naomi Wolf

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words. — Bryant McGill

The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left. — Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? — Hugo Ball

Let's go to Russia. She [Hillary Clinton] went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them that stupid symbolic reset button. — Chris Christie

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. — Eamon Duffy