Quotes About Interpretation

Two different people appealing to a search engine with the same question do not necessarily receive the same answers. The concept of truth is being relativized and individualized—losing its universal character.

Mao thought he was inscrutable you know. At least I think he did. it was hard to tell with him.

can the need for philosophy be met by humans assisted by AIs, which interpret and thus understand the world differently?

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.

As for faces - you may look into them to know, whether a man's nose be a long or a short one.

To the man with a hammer, it is said, all things look like nails. When brain surgeons look at brain scans they see things that they think require surgery and I am, alas, no exception.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Isn't it strange how some people strive to drag everything into politics! A political reason is assigned to everything, and "everything is politics.

The best way to treat a bad law is to enforce it strictly.

Scripture is not only the authoritative guide for the way of salvation, but it furnishes man with an authoritative interpretation of reality as a whole.

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

We try to understand the pain of others but we can only understand it our way.

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.

There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

A man could not be prevented from making himself a big wax doll, and kissing it. But if the man were to come with the doll and sit before a man in love, and begin caressing his doll as the lover caressed the woman he loved, it would be distasteful to the lover. Just such a distasteful sensation was what Mihailov felt at the sight of Vronsky's painting: he felt it both ludicrous and irritating, both pitiable and offensive.

He spoke with such self-confidence that his hearers could not be sure whether what he said was very witty or very stupid.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

The fate of books depends on the understanding of those who read them.

Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing but an illusion.