Quotes About Interpretation

The author of "The Religion of Israel," speaking of Samson, says: "The story of Samson and his deeds originated in a Solar myth, which was afterwards transformed by the narrator into a saga about a mighty hero and deliverer of Israel. The very name 'Samson,' is derived from the Hebrew word, and means 'Sun.' The hero's flowing locks were originally the rays of the sun, and other traces of the old myth have been preserved." [73:5]

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.

Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.

novelists only Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jorge Luis Borges have

Braque and James Joyce, they are the incomprehensibles whom anybody can understand

Few people realize that the Bible discourages people from studying foreign languages.

La medicina académica evita cuidadosamente la interpretación del síntoma, con lo que destierra tanto el síntoma como la enfermedad al ámbito de lo incongruente. Con ello, la señal pierde su auténtica función; los síntomas se convierten en señales incomprensibles.

Ni los bacilos ni las radiaciones provocan la enfermedad, sino que el ser humano los utiliza como medios para realizar su enfermedad. (La misma frase, aplicada a otro plano, suena mucho más natural: ni los colores ni el lienzo hacen el cuadro sino que el artista los utiliza como medios para realizar su pintura.) Después

Whether you get up one morning with a foggy mind and the world around you appears to be dark and foggy, or you awaken with a clear mind and your world seems beautiful and light, understand that these different impressions are coming from your own mind rather than from changes in the external environment. Instead of misinterpreting whatever you experience in life through wrong conceptions, realize that it's not outer reality, but only mind.

but the attitude reading and writing gives you

Isn't it obvious?" "Apparently not." "I'm not just writing about you," said Shane. "I'm writing to you.

Why do you keep writing about me?" "Isn't it obvious?" "Apparently not." "I'm not just writing about you," said Shane. "I'm writing to you.

Book-writing is always much easier in other people's lives.

To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.

I was the least impressed with, a woman who thought Henry Miller was a police sitcom from the seventies.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind," Leviticus says. From where I was standing, though, there was no "lying with mankind" going on; it looked more like "one mankind plowing another mankind from behind.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

The main thing that prevents us from understanding the Bible aright is not a lack of hermeneutical skills but our sin.

The main thing that prevents us from understanding the Bible aright is not a lack of hermeneutical skills but our sin. Our

With women, you don't get to pick the meaning of what you mean. They do. All men understand this.