Quotes About Interpretation

The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.

what is the nature of the bridge between the sense perceptions and the concepts?

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

Subjectivity is objective.

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

La amenaza ovni Esa última frase fue interpretada por el clero medieval como un anuncio de que el mundo tocaba a su fin, y fue general la desilusión cuando llegó el lunes y todos tuvieron que volver a trabajar.

Para acabar con la tradición judaica Leyendas hasídicas según la interpretación de un distinguido erudito El hombre no debe ser el promotor de su propia infelicidad; en realidad, el sufrimiento es fruto de la voluntad de Dios, aunque jamás alcance a comprender por qué Él disfruta tanto con ello

People believe what is important for them to believe, and each person has his or her own reason, sometimes not even known to them.

So what character in fiction do you most identify with?" she pressed him. Finally, he said, "Gregor Samsa." "My god, you kill me." She laughed.

by the Beckmann triptych and Louise Nevelson's dark black sculpture.

We had some fine chats about Jesus, Homer, and the Rig Veda from a strictly automotive point of view.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

The world isn't just the way it is. It's how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?

Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention? The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read it, just as the future can be many things, depending on how we live it. There is no inevitability to any historical occurrence, only what people will allow to take place. And it is by dreaming first that we get to new realities.

And so, when she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard "Hairless Christians", and that is what they were to her for many years. When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation in a frenzy.

But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.