Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Religious Leader
"The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols."
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Symbols
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Sun Ra
Musician
"Behold the pre-prophetic symbols of the planes of Never. Behold, behold this thisness! This isness."
Zendaya
Actress, Singer, Model
"To me, locs are a symbol of strength and beauty, almost like a lion's mane."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious."
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"God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God"
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"Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
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"But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand."
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"Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise."
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"Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself."
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"I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself."
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"Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one."
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"Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath."
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"The universe is but one vast Symbol of God."
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"It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors."
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"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing."
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"A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous."
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"I'm not a sex symbol."
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"Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!"
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"A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt."
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"Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part."
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"The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable."
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"Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness."
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"I believe in status symbols."
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"Things are symbols of themselves."
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