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Umberto Eco: What is a symbol? Etymologically speaking, the word σύμβολον comes from σνμβάλλω, to throw-with, to make something coincide with something else: a symbol was originally an identification mark made up of two halves of a coin or of a medal. Two halves of the same thing, either one standing for the other, both becoming, however, fully effective only when they matched to make up, again, the original whole. … in the original concept of symbol, there is the suggestion of a final recomposition. Etymologies, however, do not necessarily tell the truth — or, at least, they tell the truth, in terms of historical, not of structural, semantics. What is frequently appreciated in many so-called symbols is exactly their vagueness, their openness, their fruitful ineffectiveness to express a 'final' meaning, so that with symbols and by symbols one indicates what is always beyond one's reach. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5203






Kim Il Sung: So long as imperialism exists on the globe and oppresses and plunders the people, the people cannot leave off the anti-imperialist struggle even a moment. The struggle must continue till all shades of colonialism are wiped off the face of the earth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5208



Sydney J. Harris: The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5209


Ernst Thälmann: We do not say, choose Thälmann, then you have bread and freedom , we say, for bread and freedom you must fight! https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5210


Ernst Thälmann: My people, to whom I belong, and whom I love, are the German people, and my nation, which I worship with great pride, is the German nation, a knightly, proud and hard nation Flesh of the flesh of the German workers, and therefore, as their revolutionary child, have later become their revolutionary leader. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5211




Aimé Césaire: It is a new society that we must create, with the help of all our brother slaves, a society rich with all the productive power of modern times, warm with all the fraternity of olden days. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5213


Marcus Aurelius: Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5214










Marcus Aurelius: Constantly and, if it be possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul, apply to it the principles of Physic, of Ethic, and of Dialectic. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5221



Marcus Aurelius: All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5223





Marcus Aurelius: Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another, and constantly attend to it, and exercise thyself about this part (of philosophy). For nothing is so much adapted to produce magnanimity. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5225


Marcus Aurelius: All things are implicated with one another, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything unconnected with any other things. For things have been co-ordinated, and they combine to make up the same universe. For there is one universe made up of all things, and one god who pervades all things, and one substance, and one law, and one reason. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5226



Marcus Aurelius: Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of there substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may ever be new. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5227


Marcus Aurelius: This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5228


Marcus Aurelius: The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5229



Marcus Aurelius: As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has no reference, either immediately or remotely, to a social end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5230