Symbolic System Quotes

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

The zodiac is a system a person can play with and see meaning in.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.