Quotes About Interpretation

There is a vast difference between the dutiful Christian citizen and the craven Christian who cites passages out of context in order to justify a continuation of his cowardice.

The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions.

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do.

Dr Muhammad Muhsin Khan

What the person, who knows the truth, will speak, will not be understood by the person who does not know the truth.

La sensación de un yo podría estar relacionada con este patrón, de tal forma que se comprobaría que la coherencia global de una serie de modos de pensamiento es interpretada como el yo. De acuerdo con lo anterior, el yo es un patrón resultante de un proceso y nunca un objeto concreto.

Esto lo expresaba muy claramente Vivekananda cuando afirmaba que "nosotros no sabemos lo que existe allá afuera, lo único que conocemos es nuestra respuesta".

Decimos que las entidades físicas son solamente un extracto de lecturas de indicadores y que por debajo de ellas existe una naturaleza que está unida a la nuestra…".

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

ART. What's it all about? This is what ART is about…ART is when an artist looks at something…like a horse, for instance…and they see something in that horse that excites them…SO they do something about it. They tell you about it…in any one of a number of ways.

The paradox of gifts: I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

Take shots at em, I guess you could call it a parody. But compared to D, they one-fourth from watermelon to a quarter felon, dude you a pear to me.

Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

Well, dawn could be whenever you got up. The problem was that when you started rationalizing too many things, the significance of the original action was diminished.

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

Criticizing common sense, it must be said, is a tricky business,

When every answer and its opposite appears equally obvious, then, as Lazarsfeld put it, "something is wrong with the entire argument of 'obviousness.' "5

Common sense, in other words, is not so much a worldview as a grab bag of logically inconsistent, often contradictory beliefs, each of which seems right at the time but carries no guarantee of being right any other time.

But really what we're saying is that the Mona Lisa is famous because it's more like the Mona Lisa than anything else.

Isaiah Berlin argued, the kinds of descriptions that historians give of historical events wouldn't have made much sense to the people who actually participated in them.

If the answer isn't clear to you, you're not alone—even mathematicians argue about what it means to assign a probability to a single event.

black swan event like the storming of the Bastille, in other words, the broader you have to draw the boundaries around what you consider to be the event itself.