Symbolic Meaning Quotes

• 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.

  Daniel Goleman

  Art, Emotional, Brain

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.314, Bantam

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• 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.

  Ang Lee

  Men, Mysterious, Feminine

  "Ang Lee y James Schamus". Entrevista en The Guardian, www.theguardian.com. 7 de noviembre de 2000.

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

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Religious, Names, Deeds

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.14, World Wisdom, Inc

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• While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there--patriarchal control of animals and of language.

  Carol J. Adams

  Distance, Reality, Animal

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• La popularidad de las películas de catástrofes expresa la percepción colectiva de un mundo amenazado por fuerzas irresistibles e imprevistas que, sin embargo, se ven frustradas en el último momento. Su significado simbólico apenas velado podría traducirse así: Somos inocentes. Nos atacan fuerzas imprevisibles que vienen a hacernos daño. Somos, pues, inocentes incluso de negligencia. Aunque esas fuerzas sean insuperables, el azar vendrá en nuestra ayuda y saldremos victoriosos.

  David Mamet

  Perception, Tragedy, Lasts

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• I don't have a favorite cooking tool. In the kitchen, I always have my pencil and notebook in my hand. I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical. The pencil has a symbolic meaning for me. The type of person who carries a pencil around is the type of person who's open to change. Someone who walks around with a pen isn't; he's the opposite.

  Ferran Adrià

  Notebook, Jobs, Creativity

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• 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.

  Federico Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Past

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

  René Magritte

  People, Looks, Mystery

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• The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.

  Eugene Green

  Cristiano, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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