Quotes About Interpretation

Enseña a tres personas una fotografía de un clavo. Las dos primeras dirán , pero el psicoanalista replicará:

Enseña a tres personas una fotografía de un clavo. Las dos primeras dirán: eso es un clavo, pero el psicoanalista replicará: Eso es un objeto de hierro inventado hace miles de años y diseñado para unir dos bloques de madera durante un largo período de tiempo. Sin embargo, hace falta un martillo para que funcione de manera eficiente y un carpintero para dirigirlo certeramente de modo que pueda desarrollar todo su potencial.

era un hombre rutinario y ordenado. Su minuciosidad y formalidad rozaban sin duda la obsesión; creía que imponer tanta disciplina a su vida cotidiana era la única forma segura de intentar interpretar el desconcierto y el caos que sus pacientes le acercaban a diario.

Valora demasiado lo que la gente le dice. Considera las palabras dichas como un medio de llegar a la verdad. Yo las considero un medio para ocultarla. El

Valora demasiado lo que la gente le dice. Considera las palabras dichas como un medio de llegar a la verdad. Yo las considero un medio para ocultarla.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

skidding v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but are actually sincere and deeply felt.

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.

Finally, when historians contest interpretations of the past among themselves, they're liberating it in yet another sense: from the possibility that there can be only a single valid explanation of what happened.

It is not difficult to imagine that Gylfaginning represents the first encounter between Gylfi and the Asia-men and that Gylfi's delusion was in accepting that the stories told to him by Hár, Jafnhár, and Thridi were about gods. In other words, it is easy to believe that Snorri wishes us to believe that Gylfi's meeting with the æsir contributed to their euhemerization.

Viking names included 'desirous of beer', 'squat-wiggle', 'lust-hostage', 'short penis', 'able to fill a bay with fish by magic', 'the man who mixes his drinks' and 'the man without trousers'.

The Wars of the Roses weren't called that. Sir Walter Scott invented the name four centuries after the conflict.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

E]veryone is orthodox to himself…

it seems a strange way of understanding a law, which requires the plainest and directest words, that by death should be meant eternal life in misery.

A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.

PETER: But you're 'Alice'. ALICE: As you're 'Peter'... But after all, what's in a name? PETER: What isn't? She understands.

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

In seeking understanding, I am seeking for meaning.

Science is to be believed because it can be openly criticized. The criteria for belief is not authority nor logical necessity, but nobody has yet found a more convincing pattern of interpretation.