Quote of Isidore of Seville - Letters are signs of things, symbols...
Biography - Isidore of Seville:
Born: 560 - Died: 636
Period:
7th century
6th century
Place of birth: Spain
Period:
7th century
6th century
Place of birth: Spain
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.
Translation
(French, Latin, German)
Litterae autem sunt indices rerum, signa verborum, quibus tanta vis est, ut nobis dicta absentium sine voce loquantur.
See also...
Quotes about strength:
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.
Quotes for: word
Quotes for: symbol
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
One characteristic of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a natural bond between the signifier and the signified. The symbol of justice, a pair of scales, could not be replaced by just any other symbol, such as a chariot.
My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word 'water' is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
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