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the mystic must be steadily told, All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric, universal signs, instead of these village symbols, and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.
Neal Stephenson
It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.
Lionel Suggs
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
Janine di Giovanni
Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.
Kurt Vonnegut
