Quotes About Interpretation

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

This demand to change consciousness amounts to a demand to interpret reality in another way, i.e., to recognise it by means of another interpretation....They forget however, that to these phrases they themselves are only opposing other phrases, and that they are in no way combating the real existing world when they are merely combating the phrases of this world.

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point however, is to change it

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

And on its part, German Socialism recognized more and more its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty bourgeois philistine. It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation, and the German petty philistine to be the typical man. To every villainous meanness of this model man it gave a hidden, higher, socialistic interpretation, the exact contrary of its real character.

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is, to change it

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

Art seems to be about coming up with your own story or take on each piece. This made me think about the mystery of the Mona Lisa. Everyone likes that painting cos they don't know the story behind it. Who is she? Why the cheeky smile? If the Mona Lisa was done today, we'd know everything there was to know about her cos she'd have sold her story to Heat magazine and done some open-hearted interview with a tabloid before the paint was dry.

Maybe this is how Michael Jackson came up with his moonwalk. Maybe he was acting out a time when he stepped in dogshit and tried to get it off his shoes.

Some examples for you: 'Mi wantem' is 'I would like'. 'Mi wantem' sounds like 'Me want them', which equals 'I would like'. 'Bitwin' is 'between'. 'Bisnis' is 'business'. By now you've probably got the hang of it, so I don't have to tell you what 'Gud moning' means. If you're still struggling you're a 'dik ed'.

Julia's vocabulary was chock-full of strangely archaic words - spiffing, crumbs, jeepers - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.

Dear God. When did language and meaning divorce each other and decide to go their separate ways?

Je suis désolé ,' he said. You had to wonder about the French, how they could make a simple 'sorry' sound so extreme and forlorn.

The purpose of Art is to convey the truth of a thing, not to be the truth itself." SYLVIE BERESFORD TODD

no book could ever be left in the condition you found it in because it was changed every time it was read by someone.

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. You were either moved by it or you weren't.

You don't see the point of English literature?' 'I don't see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?

Sometimes," Sylvie said, "One can mistake gratitude for love.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.