#symbol

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed. ↗

— Jude Law

#i #know #myself #never #programmed

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#doctrine #greater #history #particular #problem

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

— Nate Silver

#become #deserve #does #doing #i

No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate. ↗

— George Steiner

#symbol #design

Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love. ↗

— Karl Petzke

#symbolism #food

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. ↗

— Alan D. Wolfelt

#grief #love #symbol #food

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#shark #symbolism #forgiveness

The number and richness of man’s signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary… ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#symbols #imagination

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#apparently #carried #dealing #description #endless

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity. In decadent literature, sickness is preferable to health, not only because sickness was regarded as more interesting, but because sickness was construed as subversive, as a threat to the very fabric of society. By embracing the marginal, the unhealthy and the deviant, the decadents attacked bourgeois life, which they perceived as the chief enemy of art. ↗

— Asti Hustvedt

#bourgeois #decadence #decadent #deviant #literature-decay