Quotes About Interpretation

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

una Iglesia que ha olvidado el Evangelio y que, para no perder sus privilegios, miente, engaña y es capaz de interpretar las palabras de Jesús a su conveniencia.

El gesto crea el sentimiento.

Morpheus If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain

One man's thorn is another man's rose.

Your big word isn't the content of your life, it is the context of your life.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."' 'You know Thoreau?

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn't this objective unchangeable thing called 'The World'. No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds. We read it in our own way. But also: we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.

All a writer can do is provide a match, and hopefully a dry one. The reader has to strike the flame into being.

We only know what we perceive.  Everything we perceive is ultimately just our perception of it. It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

A cow is a cow even if you call it beef.

But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

As Hamlet said to Rosencrantz, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

There are as many versions of a book as there are readers.

Soon, I told myself, I would understand what the heavily articulated greeting "get off the fucking road you fucking wanker" actually meant.

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

The object of art is to give life a shape

The moment we try and turn a thought into words we place it into a shared world. This shared world we call 'language', Once we take our personal unseen experiences and make them seen, we help others, and even ourselves, to understand what we are going through. What we say aloud can never quite capture what we feel inside, but that is almost the point. Words don't capture, they release.

To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet. But history you have lived is different to history you read in a book or on a screen. And some things in the past can't be tamed.