143 Quotes About Symbols

The word or symbol infinity represents something that is seemingly ongoing, never ending, beyond calculation.

Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.

The rose," he announced. "Loveliest and most formidable of flowers. Arms of York and Lancaster. In medieval times, a symbol of Jesus. Always, it has meant, beauty, love, peace ..."He presented the bud to Martha Macnamara. It lay resting on his long fingers until she scooped it up. She sniffed it and held it up to the light."Symbol? What's a symbol? This is a rose." She smiled and walked on,.

From shadows and symbols into the truth.

SymbolsA storm-beaten old watch-tower,A blind hermit rings the hour.All-destroying sword-blade still Carried by the wandering fool.Gold-sewn silk on the sword-blade, Beauty and fool together laid.

It is up to each individual consciousness to develop its own symbol or symbols, its own symbolic universe.

Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact. The artist is not a moralist by conscious intention, but is concerned only with hearing and expressing the vision within his or her own being. But out of the symbols the artist sees and creates—as Giotto created the forms for the Renaissance—there is later hewn the ethical structure of the society.

Synchronicities, those times when an outer event resonates mysteriously and powerfully with what's happening inside, are more numerous during great shifts and upheavals. If we pay attention, if we approach them as symbolic and revelatory, they will often illuminate a way for us.

For all its complexity, however, astrology remains fundamentally simple. It offers a time-honored system of symbols that sum up key aspects of human life while providing profound insights and practical guidance.