Quotes About Interpretation

There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.

Now, if anyone in this room or the world finds those two words decadent, obscene, immoral, amoral, asexual, the words 'to come' really make you feel uncomfortable, if you think I'm rank for saying it to you, you the beholder think it's rank for listening to it, you probably can't come. And then you're of no use, because that's the purpose of life, to re-create it.

War spells out my philosophy of "No right or wrong"— just "Your right, my wrong"—everything is subjective.

For Philosophers: No, the computer doesn't "think". Unfortunately, there's no better word for what it really does. We say "think" on the grounds that it's all right to say, "the lamp needs a new light bulb." Whether the lamp really *needs* a bulb depends on whether it *needs* to provide light (that is, incandescence is its karma). So let's just say the computer thinks.)

They say a deaf man heard a dumb man talking about a blind man who saw a cripple walking the tightrope." He

Centuries before Sigmund Freud published his Interpretation of Dreams (1900), the Jews had a saying: "In sleep, it is not the man who sins—but his dream.

Aristotle doesn't exist for Nietzsche.

Todas as mulheres são mais materialistas do que os homens: em amor, nós voamos, mas elas rastejam sempre…

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

A writer cannot really grasp what he has written. It is not like a building or a sculpture; it cannot be seen whole. It is only a kind of smoke seized and printed on a page.

biographical information needs to be understood within its immediate context, not through the bias of another cultural moment.

By assuming that Shakespeare had to have experienced something to write about it with such accuracy and force, Malone also, unwittingly, allowed for the opposite to be true: expertise in the self-revealing works that the scant biographical record couldn't support–his knowledge of falconry for example, or of seamanship, foreign lands or the ways that the ruling class behaved–should disqualify Shakespeare as the author of the plays.

Until Malone had established a working chronology of Shakespeare's plays, no critic or biographer had ever thought to interpret Shakespeare's works through events in his life.

The unprofitable game of profiling what could or couldn't be true of Shakespeare's character, based on what his characters said or did, had begun.

With Malone's decision to parse the plays for evidence of what an author thought or felt, literary biography had crossed a Rubicon.

Malone's biographical note to 'Sonnet 93' thus introduced yet another centrepiece of modern Shakespearean biography: the tendency to confuse the biographical with the autobiographical, as writers projected onto a largely blank Shakespearean slate their own personalities and preoccupations.