Quotes About Interpretation

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations—He gives us His teachings which are truths that can only be interpreted by His nature which He places within us.

If it has been a prayer to know God better, a prayer for the baptism of the Holy Ghost, a prayer for the interpretation and understanding of God's word, it is a prayer in accordance with God's will.

Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

No one can make himself pure by obeying laws. Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations—He gives us His teachings which are truths that can only be interpreted by His nature which He places within us. The great wonder of Jesus Christ's salvation is that He changes our heredity. He does not change human nature—He changes its source, and thereby its motives as well.

Lord God Omniscient, give me wisdom this day to worship and work aright and be well pleasing to Thee. Lord, interpret Thyself to me more and more in fulness and beauty.

God speaks in the language you know best—not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

A thinker is a person whose part it is to symbolize time according to his vision and understanding. He has no choice; he thinks as he has to think.

For us, the events which took place between 1500 and 1800 on the soil of Western Europe constitute the most important third of "world" history; for the Chinese historian, on the contrary, who looks back on and judges by 4000 years of Chinese history, those centuries generally are a brief and unimportant episode, infinitely less significant than the centuries of the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.), which in his "world" history are epoch-making.

was ihm auffällt macht er zu worten dazwischen aber ist mangel.

Non indagate le cose a partire dalle parole, ma indagate le parole a partire dalle cose

In the psychical sphere there are no facts, but only interpretations of them.

The artist has breathed in the world to breathe it out again; the philosopher has the world outside him and he has to absorb it.

Jack loudly protested against such literal interpretation of his figurative language, and a very pretty bout with fisticuffs was the result,—the innocent kettle ultimately being battered to pieces in the fray. Such is men's justice; in all their quarrels there is always some poor luckless kettle which, sinless itself, gets the blows from each side

Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.

We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.

Understanding what another human being says to us is always a matter of translation.

When a new thing or a new idea comes into the consciousness of the community, it is described, not by a new word, but by the name of the pre-existing object which most closely resembles it.