SYMBOLS QUOTES

Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood. Especially if it's me!

Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back