Quotes About Interpretation

La moral es la munición de la guerra. ?Moral no es más que otra palabra que se usa para todo. ¿Qué quiere decir? ¿Valentía o sanguinariedad, o no hacer preguntas indiscretas, o quiere decir lo que cada día nos dicen que quiere decir?

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it's what a poem does with its eyes.

Edward counseled that a photograph of consequence could be made from just about anything. Subject matter, in itself, was not critical. The understanding of the photographer was.

Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do.

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

When we reflect that "sentence"10 means, literally, "a way of thinking" . . . we realize that . . . a sentence is both the opportunity and the limit of thought—what we have to think with, and what we have to think in. It is, moreover, a feelable thought. . . . It is a pattern of felt sense. —Wendell Berry

Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama.

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

I got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

My for example is woofs.

got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

Zwei Seiten Eines läßt sich nicht bestreiten: Jede Sache hat zwei Seiten. — Die der andern, das ist eine, Und die richtige Seite, deine.

When something cannot be described, it does not become a fact of shared reality.

Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art -- something that makes people pay attention, return to the work again and again, and reexamine their assumptions, something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts -- a great work of art is always a miracle.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there... only because we are lost in endless linguistic games that are entirely beside the point.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert; but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact. —Thomas Sowell, American economist

Para empezar, dice que una de las cosas cruciales para las personas afectadas por la depresión es evaluar de manera constante tanto a sí mismas como su condición mental. Algo que el estoicismo enseña a cualquier persona es a evaluar sus propias reacciones y a reflexionar críticamente sobre cómo percibe e interpreta el mundo.

I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.

Art has become a necessity of life.