Quotes About Interpretation

By changing the emphasis and angle on this little plot we can make it say almost anything we like. There is certainly no need to worry about whether any of this is true, or actually happened; it is as true as you make it. The important thing is that it be true in the story, and actually happen there.

I'll tell them,' she said, and the baby looked at me cynically.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

I told them that Karl Marx was a theory and that theories change. Today it was this theory, tomorrow that one. But Tolstoi was a great artist and art remains forever.

You'll ask: how can people understand one another without talking? Well that shows that you really know psychology. But not people!

Sosil said a cat licking herself meant a guest was coming.

Well look and see what this very same Job has to say, that book which everyone reads, but no one understands

Like the saying goes: the dead look the way they eat! And you ought to see that woman's husband

For instance, if the biblical Hebrew says: "And he said," the Aramaic says: "And he saith.

How does it say in the Talmud: Who giveth life giveth also the fruit of the vine. Rashi interprets it as: God may be God, but brandy is brandy. L'chayim!

My mother says dumplings in a dream are a dream and not dumplings.

there is no absolute truth, there is only the interpretation of truth.

On trial... the most important factor is not innocence or guilt, but the impression of innocence or guilt. There's no absolute truth. Just the interpretation of truth.

The interpretation of Dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind

And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand him fully. For as Freud said to Putnam: We are what we are because we have been what we have been.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

For there is a way back from imagination to reality and that is—art.

Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it—all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory.

Dreams are never concerned with trivia.

The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions . This is simply disregarded. To the dream 'No' does not seem to exist. In particular, it prefers to draw opposites together into a unity or to represent them as one. Indeed, it also takes the liberty of representing some random element by its wished-for opposite, so that at first one cannot tell which of the possible poles is meant positively or negatively in the dream-thoughts.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The dream shows how recollections of one's everyday life can be worked into a structure where one person can be substituted for another, where unacknowledged feelings like envy and guilt can find expression, where ideas can be linked by verbal similarities, and where the laws of logic can be suspended.