"Symbolic representation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... religious, a poetical, a philosophical, or an artistic form. The difference is that the poet has intuitions, while the philosopher gives demonstrations; that the thought which in one mind is converted into emotion, is in the other resolved into logic; and that a symbolic representation of the idea is substituted for a direct expression. The normal relation is exhibited in the case of the anatomist and the sculptor. The artist intuitively recognises the most perfect form; the man of science analyses the structural relations by which it is produced. ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen
... opinion among Folk-lore authorities that in this rough drama, which we find played in slightly modified form all over Europe (in Scandinavia it is the Julbock, a man dressed in skins, who, after a dramatic dance, is killed and revived),[25] we have a symbolic representation of the death and re-birth of the year; a counterpart to those ceremonies of driving out Winter, and bringing in Spring, which ...
— From Ritual to Romance • Jessie L. Weston
... recognize at the same time a good god, incommunicable to man and consequently without symbolic representation, and a bad god, to whom they give the features of ...
— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster |
