Quotes About Interpretation

the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero

Say wharever you choose about the object, and wharever you might say it is not. Or, in other words: wharever you might say the object is, well it is not.

No reflecting reader can deny that the passing off, on an unsuspecting listener, of noises for words, or symbols, must be classified as a fraud, or that we pass to the other fellow contagious semantic disturbances.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El mapa no es el territorio" (Alfred Korzybski)

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

There are deeper types of symbolism, in a sense artificial, and yet such that we could not get on without them. Language, written or spoken, is such a symbolism.

In so far as your metaphysical beliefs are implicit, you vaguely interpret the past on the lines of the present. But when it comes to the primary metaphysical data, the world of which you are immediately conscious is the whole datum.

It is 'the work of history', said Marx, 'to discover the various uses of things'.

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo")

A story that needs to have words said about it, is a story that does not contain all its own right words. -- Introduction to Varley's "Persistence Of Vision" collection

A great many men don't understand a woman full of joy, even more don't understand paintings full of joy by a woman.

There's always, there'll always be, more story. That's what story is.

Imagine if you made something and then you always had to be seen through what you'd made, as if the thing you'd made became you.

Words words words. Words Words words. Words words Words .

A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.

The third person is another pair of eyes. The third person is a presentiment of God. ...... a way to tell the story. It's a box for the endless music that's there between people, waiting to be played.

where would we be without our ability to see beyond what it is we're supposed to be seeing.

She came right up to the side of the building as if she were coming round its corner and simply sort of reading the sign because that's what she was, a girl reading the world.

It was just that the literal meaning itself wasn´t immediately comprehensible. That doesn´t mean it didn´t mean.