To me there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut sent up as assistant to a series of computers found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule man is still in charge.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude which our eye perceives which art reproduces and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself but always some manner of life.

In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.