Quotes About Interpretation

That's Beethoven's fifth... Da da da dum! Heh heh. That's morse code, y'know. Uh, morse code? Hmm. It's morse code for the letter v.

In our narratives we may signify without constraint.

Je crois que la magie est de l'art, et que l'art est littéralement de la magie. L'art, comme la magie, consiste à manipuler les symboles, les mots ou les images pour produire des changements dans la conscience.

A lét véletlenszer?. Nincs benne szabály, csak amit mi képzelünk bele, ha sokáig nézzük. Nincs értelme, csak amit mi aggatunk rá. Ezt a vitorla nélküli világot nem homályos metafizikai erÅ'k szabják. Nem isten öli meg a gyerekeket. Nem a sors darabolja fel Å'ket, és nem a végzet veti a kutyák elé. Hanem mi. Csak mi.

the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

what I preferred was not statues but the bird in the statue's hair.

we are terrible at reading each other's thoughts. Yet we consistently behave as if we have been endowed with this entirely handsome ability.

It is hard to think about your past without tidying it up into a kind of story: one in which you are cast as the hero or victim. Invariably we ignore the regular dice-rolls of chance or random luck; successful high-flyers are typically prone to ignoring the interplay of blind fortune when they credit their career trajectories to their canny business sense or brute self-belief. We tell the story we want to tell, and we live out those stories every day.

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.'1 In other words, it is not events out there that cause our problems but rather our reactions to them: the stories we tell ourselves.

Hamlet: 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' Later, in the nineteenth century

My techniques are concerned with reading signals from people, tiny unconscious clues that betray their thoughts. I tend to see it like a game...

The way that we draw faces says so much about the way that we see ourselves and the way that we see each other.

What makes us dream of some things and not others? Why might we pick up on a trivial event from the day and not something more important? Would it be possible to have someone dream of specific subjects by subtly suggesting those ideas?

Do you think astrologists, palm readers and the like can really tell everything about you? That your personality can be read from your birth date, your hand or from sensing vibrations? Very possible.

It's never possible to know for certain the "true" source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection) and reality. The question quickly becomes, What is real? It is always possible to consciously or unconsciously "see" almost anything we want. I can look at the ceiling and see an image of the Virgin Mary, or I can look at the ceiling and see that the spackler did a damn good job.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Lakshmi massages Vishnu's feet. Is this male domination? Kali stands on Shiva's chest. Is this female domination? Shiva is half a woman. Is this gender equality? Why then is Shakti never half a man?

Religious or secular, all myths make profound sense to one group of people. Not to everyone. They cannot be rationalized beyond a point. In the final analysis, you either accept them or you don't.

Our behaviour towards others is based on what we see and how we process our observation.

It's the Indian headshake. It means you are probably right, or probably wrong. Who knows? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra a hundred, you and I only two.

Brahmins were essentially transmitters and stewards of Vedic hymns and rituals, not its interpreters or owners. Over time, however, they used their exalted position to dominate society and claim entitlements. It was an irony of history that those who carried knowledge of how to expand the mind failed to expand their own minds, and chose the common path of domination instead.

In fact the English word 'demon' is full of a value judgement that is wrongly attributed to the words rakshasa and asura.

As Indra's wife, Lakshmi is known as Sachi and Indra is known as Sachin.