Quotes About Interpretation

In sum: the world might be far more valuable than we used to believe; we must see through the naiveté of our ideals, and while we thought that we had accorded it the highest interpretation, we may not have given our human existence a moderately fair value.

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

Judgements, value judgements concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgements are stupidities.

Anyone who cannot manage to invest his will in things at least invests them with a meaning: i.e. he believes there is already a will in them (principle of 'belief).Anyone who cannot manage to invest his will in things at least invests them with a meaning: i.e. he believes there is already a will in them (principle of 'belief).

Is he a poet? Or a genuine one? An emancipator? Or a subjugator? A good one? Or an evil one?

Religion is the organized attempt to understand spiritual experience, to interpret it with words and concepts, and to use this interpretation as the source of moral guidelines for the religious community.

And then he says that Thibaut always referred to Twin Peaks as Cleopatra's Breasts.

Facts in our day are not the same as the facts in the time of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas. But the principles by which these facts are interpreted have not changed, for common sense remains essentially the same throughout the ages.

The conclusion is that the physical theory and the mathematical theory of science are valid methods but not valid philosophies. Facts need interpretation the physical theory forgets that it has no such principles of interpretation with its own bosom.

FREUDIANISM interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man.

The familiar would of sense experience is not entirely objectively real, but is to some extent a product of the scientists' reasoning.

Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.

La vida no es la vida que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo recuerda para contarla

I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

La muerta del Creador implica finalmente la muerte del creador. Lo cual no impide que Michel Foucault y Jacques Derrida firmen como autores de sus libros...

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

If it had writing, I read it: cereal boxes, ads on the subway, billboards, highway signs. I

Funny how "I love you" never sounded the same in different languages. It lost or gained power. In English, it sounded so plain. In Spanish, it became a promise.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

When people ask me why is 'Winter's Tale' a fantasy, I point out that it is not a fantasy.

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes.

Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.'

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.