Quotes about Symbolic

Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people. Votes: 6

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. Votes: 6

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise? Votes: 6

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action. Votes: 6

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. Votes: 6

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. Votes: 6

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself. Votes: 6

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. Votes: 6

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. Votes: 4

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. Votes: 4

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound. Votes: 4

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. Votes: 4

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind. Votes: 4

Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings? Votes: 4

Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form. Votes: 4

I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought. Votes: 4

When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality. Votes: 4

History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think. Votes: 4

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. Votes: 4

If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be. The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness. Votes: 4

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. Votes: 3

She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd. Votes: 3

"Airgela" is "Alegria" backwards and "Alegria" means "Joy" or "Happiness." This is a fundamental word in this film. It's very important. Symbolically "Alegria" is crucial word in the creation of this project. Although it wasn't present from the beginning, as we were working on the music it became symbolic. Votes: 3

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. Votes: 2

To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. Votes: 2

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. Votes: 2

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. Votes: 2

Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them. Votes: 2

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day. Votes: 2

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did. Votes: 2

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. Votes: 2

What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. Votes: 2

The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. Votes: 2

If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility. Votes: 2

On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men. Votes: 2

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope. Votes: 2

When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy. Votes: 2

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year. Votes: 2

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe. Votes: 2

The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25. Votes: 2

Clothes are incredibly symbolic. Votes: 0

All our knowledge is symbolic. Votes: 0

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures. Votes: 0

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions Votes: 0

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit. Votes: 0

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings. Votes: 0

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. Votes: 0

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic. Votes: 0

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. Votes: 0

The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic. Votes: 0

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. Votes: 0

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words. Votes: 0

Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms. Votes: 0

When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good. Votes: 0

The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious Votes: 0

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. Votes: 0

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. Votes: 0

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist. Votes: 0

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free. Votes: 0

I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist Votes: 0

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. Votes: 0

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. Votes: 0

It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside. Votes: 0

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun. Votes: 0

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner. Votes: 0

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. Votes: 0

There have been people who represent something very symbolic and I've been freaked out interviewing them. Votes: 0

Standing is symbolic of life itself,Open space is just a distance between you and someone else Votes: 0

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable. Votes: 0

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images. Votes: 0

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera. Votes: 0

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others Votes: 0

An achievement award is not the end goal; but rather a symbolic confirmation of your potential future success. Votes: 0

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity. Votes: 0

Remember, Shaw, that the power of the dagger lies not only in the visual, but also the symbolic. Votes: 0

Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision. Votes: 0

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work. Votes: 0

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal. Votes: 0

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors." Votes: 0

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. Votes: 0

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste. Votes: 0

If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over. Votes: 0

Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. Votes: 0

Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress. Votes: 0

Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. Votes: 0

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve. Votes: 0

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. Votes: 0

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. Votes: 0

A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins. Votes: 0

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life. Votes: 0

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins. Votes: 0

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. Votes: 0

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. Votes: 0

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism. Votes: 0

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous. Votes: 0

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one. Votes: 0

I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill - a skill based in self-esteem. Votes: 0

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all. Votes: 0

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream Votes: 0

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. Votes: 0

The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left. Votes: 0

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the grotesque exaltation of symbolic ones like Kim Il Sung. Votes: 0

Photography is full of symbolism, it's a symbolic language. You have to be able to materialize all your thoughts in one single image. Votes: 0

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world. Votes: 0

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. Votes: 0

There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is. Votes: 0

Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy. Votes: 0

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. Votes: 0

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning. Votes: 0

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly. Votes: 0

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees. Votes: 0

When you cross a bridge, try to touch it with your hand! That will be a symbolic gratitude for the good service it gives to us! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. Votes: 0

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us. Votes: 0

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts. Votes: 0

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms. Votes: 0

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money. Votes: 0

One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation. Votes: 0

isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain ... Votes: 0

A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration Votes: 0

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable. Votes: 0

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge. Votes: 0

Information comes through to me in 3 basic ways seen, hearing, and feeling the energy of the person that's crossed over. In which it is a symbolic type of language. Votes: 0

Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are. Votes: 0

Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive presence. I figure them differently. Votes: 0

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant ... Votes: 0

From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with very different and ill-distributed symbolic powers. Votes: 0

Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available. Votes: 0

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic. Votes: 0

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery. Votes: 0

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit. Votes: 0

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force. Votes: 0

What an amazing creative way to magnify, and illuminate the courage of 30 Sheroes whose courage, leadership and character is symbolic of the many unsung Women Sheroes of past and present. Votes: 0

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword. Votes: 0

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color. Votes: 0

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society. Votes: 0

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general. Votes: 0

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community. Votes: 0

This morning President Obama met with Britain's Prince William in the Oval Office. It was a meeting between a symbolic ruler with no real power and the future king of England. Votes: 0

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea. Votes: 0

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies. Votes: 0

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking. Votes: 0

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! Votes: 0

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit! Votes: 0

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. Votes: 0

I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about! Votes: 0

Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families. Votes: 0

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can. Votes: 0

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. Votes: 0

Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling. Votes: 0

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product. Votes: 0

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest. Votes: 0

I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too! Votes: 0

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate. Votes: 0

Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile. Votes: 0

Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs. Votes: 0

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better. Votes: 0

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor. Votes: 0

So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines. Votes: 0

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package. Votes: 0

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package." Votes: 0

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features. Votes: 0

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything. Votes: 0

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. Votes: 0

The largely hidden key to the symbolic world is time; indeed it is at the origin of human symbolic activity. Time thus occasions the first alienation, the route away from aboriginal richness and wholeness. Votes: 0

The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical. Votes: 0

Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations. Votes: 0

The values of this Western civilization under the leadership of America have been destroyed. Those awesome symbolic towers that speak of liberty, human rights, and humanity have been destroyed. They have gone up in smoke. Votes: 0

Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment. Votes: 0

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair. Votes: 0

It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction. Votes: 0

I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation. Votes: 0

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple. Votes: 0

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what's important. Votes: 0

People working at the arenas are not just depending on one or two concerts. I think it gives a symbolic boost, as well as those shows do bring down some monetary investments in the city. Votes: 0

As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning. Votes: 0