31 Quotes About Symbolic

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

Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.

The rest of the girls out there are just shooting stars," Simon whispered into my ear. "They're on a crash course to nowhere. But you, my lady friend, you're a black hole. You've sucked me in, and now there's no escape

Just before they boarded the yacht, Cassandra glanced at Tom and reached up to a delicate necklace she'd worn constantly since the day he'd given it to her. She touched the little charm, made in the shape of Euler's infinity symbol, that hung at the hollow of her throat.And as always, the private signal made him smile.

...not everything can be a symbol. A symbol has to be textually produced; it requires a specific semiotic strategy. [...] . A symbolic strategy can produce aesthetic enjoyment, but it is first of all semiotic machinery.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.

We hardly said anything, we seemed to communicate through the chessmen, there was something very symbolic about my winning. That he wished me to feel. I don’t know what it was. I don’t know whether it was that he wanted me to see my “virtue” triumphed over his “vice” or something subtler, that sometimes losing is winning.

Japanese people may find this surprising, but eel is a common ingredient in European cuisine.Kurokiba's Eel Matelote from the Classic's Semifinal Round is one such European dish.""Southern Italy in particular has a tradition of eating eel right around Natale, which is Christmas. It's often served during the feasts for La Vigilia on Christmas Eve night.The eels are supposed to symbolize devils, and eating them is thought to be a charm warding off bad luck and evil spirits.