„Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol.Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.“

— Flannery O’Connor

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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.“
— C.G. Jung
„I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.“
— A.A. Milne
„Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„I think the reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.“
— Martha Graham