But this metaphysics, like this science, has enfolded its deeper life in a rich tissue of symbols, forgetting something that, while science needs symbols for its analytical development, the main object of metaphysics is to do away with symbols.

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

الحياة مليئة بالأسرار ولا يمكنك أن تعرفيها كلها دفعة واحدة.

Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand.

Stars and shadows ain't good to see by.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

If you look for a meaning, you’ll miss everything that happens.

"Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols."

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening.

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is.