Quotes About Interpretation

Mrs Husserl was reported on occasion to have introduced Heidegger to others as her husband's 'phenomenological child'.

you don't know what he hears because he just talks.

The president, while often a fabulist in his depiction of the world, was quite a literalist when it came to how he saw himself.

everybody understanding that nine-tenths of what came out of his mouth was blah-blah

It was, said Walsh, "like trying to figure out what a child wants.

As it happened, Conway meant to say "alternative information," which at least would imply there might be additional data.

Acting, in his view, was the greater and more important legal skill.

Trump saw the world through the filter of other people's weaknesses. He saw people through their physical and intellectual shortcomings, or through oddities in the way they talked or dressed.

It's all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.

In the Koran, Jesus is called Muhammad's "Lord" (Koran 89:22) and the Truth (Koran 2:91). The Koran also describes Jesus as the "Word" of God (Koran 3:45; 4:171) and a "spirit proceeding from Him" (Koran 4:171).

Toute expérience poétique engage au moins trois termes : un sujet, un monde, un langage».

I quote others only in order to better express myself.

It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

I quote others only to better express myself.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem that to understand a good one.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Annabelle ne renonçait pas; pour elle, le visage de Michel ressemblait au commentaire d'un autre monde. Vers la même époque elle lut la Sonate à Kreutzer, crut un instant le comprendre au travers de ce livre.

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.

La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité.

Le pecore bianche fanno «Beh!», le pecore nere fanno «Meh!».

A code resembled a coin with two sides, heads and tails, which were contradictory: both accessible and secret.

The given - forgive me - what is marketable, is only given - forgive me - is only sold in and through language. [...] Triumphant, the word redeems anything that could lend taste or aroma and transubstantiates it into something seen and read and heard, the channels that are peculiar to it. This - what you eat and drink - is the body and blood of the word. Here - where you buy it - lies the grave of bread and wine, body and blood, dead and resuscitated as messages.