Quotes About Interpretation

As you know, all of the Bible stories are your stories; its characters live only in the mind of man. They have no reference at all to any person, who lived in time and space, or to any event that ever occurred upon earth.

El mundo es su caleidoscopio, y las diferentes combinaciones de colores que en cada momento que le presenta son las imágenes exquisitamente ajustadas de sus pensamientos siempre en movimiento.

Our subconscious assumptions continually externalise themselves that others may see us as we subconsciously see ourselves, and tell us by their actions what we have subconsciously assumed ourselves to be.

Often our most elaborate and original thoughts are determined by another.

One of the things I think about is if you were to take a history book and pull the bullshit out of it, find the truth, snatch out all the bullshit that's in there, then you're going to wind up with two or three pages.

Everything owns a sound, loud or soft. When sound hits a thing, it comes back an echo. Mumbi said -Everything sends back a sound, however soft. If you listen to an echo with care, you can tell where it is coming from. The ear is the eye of the soul. It sorts out the sound and the echo and tells us what makes the sound and where it is coming from

Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories.

So compelling is the evidence of our own eyes and ears, so swift is your mind to assemble your own version of the story, that one of the hardest things in this world is to understand there's another way of seeing things.

It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.

A poem should improve on the blank page.

psychologist David Premack refers to as the "Russian-novel problem"—that is, when looking at the history of two animals (or humans), it is often hard to know what caused what, since the two may have interacted in so many ways over such a long time, and they may also remember events differently and act according to this subjective experience.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

When we speak with emoji, we're speaking a language that machines can understand.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

A drawn line can be many things," he says, whereas a digitized line has to be just one thing.27

The strip-mining of "relevant content" replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT

lead us to perceive minds where no minds exist, even in "inanimate objects.

These things have a huge impact on how music is experienced by listeners; they can make one performance profoundly moving, another dull or ridiculous or unintelligible, even though the notes are the same.

Man is the measure of all things', meaning that there is no truth except that which man perceives.

Translation is a tricky business," Holmes observed, placing the tips of his fingers together in his accustomed fashion. "Cervantes once said that reading something in translation is like looking at a Flemish tapestry wrong side out. The image may be there, but is obscured by a great many dangling threads.

Yet the distinctive nature of that 'privileging' is the convergence of priesthood and suffering, for as Davies also observes: 'If Christian interpreters have tended to see priesthood in terms of missionary service, a typically Jewish reading is to see it in terms of suffering.

There are always differences, tensions, paradoxes between what a text says (or what an author wants to say, or thinks s/he is saying) and what a text does.

Deconstruction wouldn't make much sense without the structures that are subject to destructuring.

A text always remains in crucial ways 'imperceptible'.