Quotes About Interpretation

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different

Creer que porque uno sintió algo, ese algo de alguna manera logró colarse y depositarse en el sistema digestivo del otro.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Demuestre que usted es un autor «inteligente»; en esa forma nadie sabrá que es inteligente de verdad, cosa peligrosísima. Téngalo en cuenta: muchas personas leen solamente los títulos. Después compran la obra y la archivan en sus bibliotecas per sécula. Si no se esmera, perderá el treinta y cinco por ciento de los lectores.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

Herkes kendi cennetini ba?kas?n?n cehennemine koyar.

Nobody believes anything that's put in a poem.

To insist that we all view Scripture alike, or that a particular interpretation of a particular passage be enforced somehow, can easily cripple the spiritual forces of the church.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

La verdad es que aquí cada uno oye lo que quiere. El lenguaje es interpretativo. Los mensajes varían en el trayecto y nadie se da cuenta o a nadie le importa. Sí es también no o quizás . No es posible aceptar ni rechazar. Nacer es morir. Quedarse es partir.

También sabemos que cualquier constelación es una trampa del pensamiento. A veces nos complacemos en trazar líneas que unen puntos, fechas, estrellas, sucesos. Entonces creemos que hay algo en común entre esos sucesos, estrellas, fechas y puntos, sin darnos cuenta de que el único parentesco es el que hemos dibujado nosotros con tendencioso lápiz. Una última consideración: la oscuridad del cielo debe ser entendida como un don.

if you want to be understood ...Listen.

It's not enough to quote someone; it's important to specify what aspect of that person you're referencing. Every time we talk about someone, we speak of that person as if our perception is the same for everyone. When

Why call something a play that's based on a text?

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

El mito es reflejo de la realidad".

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

her hot attire did not signify promiscuity—contrary to the consensual interpretation of the other male teachers—but a kind of nostalgia: this was what she used to wear when she was happy, when she used to live the normal

Following Nietzsche's arguments concerning the genealogy of the word "good"(and "evil"), one could also say that the main difference between "masters"and the "herd" (as the new masters) is that masters are the ones who "give names" (and can thus say "this is so-and-so") whereas the "herd" fights for the -interpretation- of these names ("this -means- so-and-so"). Yet this interpretation is itself a form of mastery, and is often much more tyrannical than the act of "giving names".