Quotes About Interpretation

Hild realised that every shape the man's body made refused the words, and the bard was nodding along. The bard had made the speech.

Watch women and men, put yourself inside them. Imagine what they're thinking.

There was no wind in the hall, no fly to land on Gwenhwyfar's hand and tell Peretur all she needed-and she could read nothing in the queen's carefully judged smile.

Reading Nietzsche as a response is not understanding him. Nietzsche is an immense interrogation.

Unnütz, jemandem einen Gedanken erklären zu wollen, dem eine Anspielung nicht genügt.

Linke und Rechte sind durch die verschiedenen Deutungen charakterisiert, die sie dem zweideutigen Motto geben, das Goya für ein Capricho wählt: "El sueño de la razón produce monstruos." Die Linke übersetzt: schlafen. Die Rechte: träumen.

Leer a Nietzsche como respuesta es no entenderlo. Nietzsche es una interrogación inmensa.

Whoever does not understand that two perfectly contrary attitudes can both be perfectly justified ought not to engage in criticism.

De statistiek is het werktuig van wie afziet van het begrijpen om te kunnen manipuleren.

The fool is scandalized and laughs when he notices that philosophers contradict each other. It is difficult to make the fool understand that philosophy is precisely that: the art of contradicting each other without canceling each other out.

Whereas contemporaries read only the optimist with enthusiasm, posterity rereads the pessimist with admiration.

Appartengono alla letteratura tutti i libri che si possono leggere due volte.

Es gibt keine universal gültigen Deutungen. Eine religiöse Deutung ist grotesk in einem profanen Kontext, so wie eine profane Deutung grotesk ist in einem religiösen Kontext. Dort sind nur wissenschaftliche Kategorien brauchbar; hier ist alles Zeichen, Symbol, Sakrament. Der Regen ist für den, der anbetet, göttlicher Segen, der auf das Wunder des Weizens fällt.

La oscuridad de un texto no es defecto cuando lo que dice sólo puede decirse oscuramente.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

What—what gold-thing did you buy her?" "A goldfish," Matt says. I groan, "She wanted jewelry, Matt. Like a ring." Matt winces. Then he shrugs. "Well, she didn't say that." I sigh. "She meant it." He shrugs. "She didn't say it." "Matt!" I groan. He tries to seem innocent. He says, "She just said buy her something gold.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature...

An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real -- it is a passing will o' the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts

Art is about those things which we do not always immediately recognize or understand. The artist helps us to see things more clearly, revealing previously hidden patterns to us. Art is fractal. Art reflects and expresses the fractal nature of our conscious perceptions of the world, as interpreted by our fractal brains.

Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

A própria sincera, ao expressar-se, torna-se insincera.