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People think about political questions, candidates and leaders through symbols -- symbolic issues, symbolic events, symbolic stories.
It is an allegory of the quest for wisdom and enlightenment as presented through symbols of Freemasonry; Mozart and Schikaneder were both Freemasons.
It is also, like every good national ritual, about binding a community together through symbols and stories and reaffirming our joint past, common ties and shared fate.
Meaningful solidarity – which can only ever be and aimed at addressing real political and material problems, and therefore far beyond any sense of nation – cannot be adequately expressed through symbols with so much colonial baggage.
The basic premise of psychoanalysis, after all, is that our lives are ruled by unconscious forces, which speak to us only indirectly: through symbols in dreams, "accidental" slips of the tongue, or through what infuriates us about others, which is a clue to what we can't face in ourselves.
Science, however, parts ways with art when it presents rhythms through symbols that mean nothing to perception.
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For the Symbolist playwright, the deeper truths of existence, known instinctively or intuitively, could not be directly expressed but only indirectly revealed through symbol, myth, and mood.
Like a night dream, a myth tells its tale through symbol, image and metaphor.
Philosopher Paul Tillich argued that religious faith is best expressed through symbolism because a symbol points to a meaning beyond itself and best expresses transcendent religious beliefs.
Numeracy (the ability to express quantities through numeric symbols) appeared about 8000 bce, and literacy followed about 3200 bce.
Suddenly, she is scrolling through extraterrestrial symbols on her tablet and matching them to English nouns and verbs.
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