Quotes About Interpretations

Christ does not make new laws; he rectifies the wrong interpretations of the scribes which had vitiated the purity of the law of God.

There is more than one history of the world.

In other words there were many positive judgments, but often in sharp contrast to one another, as if the reviewers hadn't read the book that was in the bookstores but, rather, each had evoked a fantasy book fabricated from his own biases.

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

know how to employ the diversity of perspectives and emotional interpretations for the advancement of knowledge.

through hand gestures was no easy business. A single gesture could have many different significations. Even the mano infica turned out to have three different interpretations: it could mean the subject was warding off evil, or dishing out an insult, or making "a kind of offensive or impertinent invitation.

In short, I could accept that Jesus saw his own death the way that Tom suggests only if there were very strong historical evidence for it. I find it more historically persuasive, and religiously compelling, to see the purposeful understanding of Jesus' death as post-Easter interpretations, and as history metaphorized, not history remembered.

the reprehensible presumption of individuals who attempted to think for themselves in matters connected with religion, or to be guided by their own interpretations of Scripture

Much of Macon's youth was ruled by connotations.

We have run into false theology, we have run into "churchianity" and human interpretations, and a hundred other follies, but friends, it is a perfectly lovely and refreshing thing to get back to Jesus.

For nothing ever ends, really; stories lead to other stories, journeys across a thousand miles of ocean lead to journeys across a continent, and the meanings and interpretations of these stories are legion. 'Origins' are simply where we choose to pick up the story, dictating (and dictated by) what kind of story it is we wish to tell. 'Outcomes' are where we wearily draw to a close.

La edad proporciona otras interpretaciones, por supuesto. Las venas se endurecen, lo mismo que las opiniones.

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

I think art is the only thing that's spirtual in the world. And I refuse to be forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

A la historia la organizan los historiadores; ellos la hacen coherente e inteligible, mediante el uso de puntos de vista e interpretaciones que son, siempre, parciales, provisionales, y, en última instancia, tan subjetivas como las construcciones artísticas.

There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if it is open to different interpretations. And if two people do have differing views about their relationship - I don't just mean about its state, I mean about its very nature - then that difference can affect the entire course of their lives.

I have been part of a lot of recreations. So, I don't think there's any harm in doing recreations if they are done in the correct manner.

it wasn't necessarily events themselves that drove our emotions but our beliefs about or interpretations of those events.

Religious interpretations invariably reduce complexity to uniformity while elevating matter-of-factness to holiness.

There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

You create your story in consciousness as you interpret your own behavior, and as you listen to other people's thoughts about you. The life story is not the work of a historian [...]; it is more like a work of historical fiction that makes plenty of references to real events and connects them by dramatizations and interpretations that might or might not be true to the spirit of what happened.