86 Quotes About Symbol

Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see.

Haman is a symbol of a typical ungodly government representative

You couldn’t see the soldiers as people. They were icons.

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it's true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

It is within and through language that the human mind points to itself.

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.

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

We are all transsexuals, just as we are biological mutants in potentia. This is not a biological issue, however: we are all transsexuals symbolically.

Taj Mahal is not just a monument, but a symbol of love.