143 Quotes About Symbols

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in books and why your English teacher deserves your attention. Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the author intended the symbol to be there because the job of reading is not to understand the author’s intent. The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as a we ourselves.

Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter.

We think and speak in a certain language. So language seems to be a natural thing. It is not! It's a set of symbols decided by the society. It's the operating system of society just like windows or android. Silence (no speech, no thought) is the only way to log out of society and log in to the universe.

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

Un idioma es una tradición, un modo de sentir la realidad, no un arbitrario repertorio de símbolos.(A language is a tradition, a way of grasping reality, not an arbitrary assemblage of symbols.)

O' melancholy,hectic chill for human soul,herewith dismal presence,any spirit does descent.

Symbols of productivity ARE NOT productivity.