Quotes about Symbolism

The four rings on my wedding finger are all very significant - my wedding ring, my mum's wedding ring and the engagement rings of my granny and mother-in-law.

An image of God doesn't contain God, in the same way a word about God or a doctrine or a dogma about God isn't God; it only points to God.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

I am nailed to the cross of my imagination.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

Some things die after they born, others born after they die. myths are public dreams, dreams are privet myths...

And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.

Myth is much more important and true than history.

Mythology -and therefore civilization- is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow. We say the heart to express emotion, the head to denote thought; and thought and emotion are words borrowed from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature. Most

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings.