Quotes About Interpretation

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Taoism is not a religion, although perhaps it has been made into one by some people. Lao Tsu's way of life occurs in any spiritual philosophy.

One person's cult is another person's spiritual organization.

I love you silly 'holy' book. Here's hoping everybody un-reads it.

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

One could continue quoting Irigaray, but the reader is probably lost (so are we).

Memoria este un proces de editare care exagereaz? inevitabil unele episoade, le reprim? pe altele È™i aranjeaz? evenimentele într-o ordine mai clar?, dar nimeni nu recunoaÈ™te asta despre propria memorie.

we are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.

if human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception, but from interpolation, memory, educated guesswork - they would go quietly mad.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

One picture is worth a thousand words

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

It is the theory which decides what can be observed

Never argue with an artist.

He might also interpret his experience thus: "My body of reference (the carriage) remains permanently at rest. With reference to it, however, there exists (during the period of application of the brakes) a gravitational field which is directed forwards and which is variable with respect to time. Under the influence of this field, the embankment together with the earth move non-uniformly in such a manner that their original velocity in the backward direction is continuously reduced.

The power of readers lies not in their ability to gather information, in their ordering and cataloguing capability, but in their gift to interpret, associate and transform their reading.

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.

the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of years ago and of which we know nothing; every reading projects its shadow onto the following page, lending it content and context. In this way, the story grows, layer after layer, like the skin of the society whose history this act preserves.

There is an unbridgeable chasm between the book that traditions had declared a classic and the book (the same book) that we have made ours through instinct, emotion and understanding: suffered through it, rejoiced in it, translated it into our experience and (notwithstanding the layers of readings with which a book come into our hands) essentially become its first discoverers, an experience as astonishing and unexpected.

Every book can be, for the right reader, an oracle, responding on occasion even to questions unasked..

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

We read to understand, or to begin to understand