Quotes About Interpretation

Leer bien significa arriesgarse mucho. Es dejar vulnerable nuestra identidad, nuestra posesion de nosotros mismos.

Without translation, we would be living in provinces bordering on silence.

George Steiner

The news brought by annunciations not only stays new; it can be unendurable in its ambiguity.

Only language knows no conceptual, no projective finality.

No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation (onomatopoeia), has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.

For the late-twentieth-century reader, says Borges, Joyce comes before Homer, and the Odyssey is a late commentary on Ulysses .

We are the 'other ones' whom the living significations of the aesthetic seek out.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian. Samuel Clemens Mark Twain, American author and humorist

Tutti abbiamo coscienza che la vita è una parodia e che non ha un'interpretazione. Così il piombo è la parodia dell'oro. L'aria la parodia dell'acqua. Il cervello è la parodia dell'equatore. Il coito è la parodia del delitto.

on the question if he thought The Holy Ghost wrote the bible): I think The Holy Ghost has written all books.

In any case the mind of the Third Estate is of capital interest in showing the historian that events have their immediate roots not in their antecedents but in the men who intervene by interpreting those events.

Woman is the window through which we see the world.

If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful

Perceiving that she had constituted herself interpreter, M. Plançon opened negotiations with an impassioned plea to be preserved from these mad Englishmen who expected honest Frenchmen to understand their own barbarous language – and this in France, voyez-vous!

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The matter of art in photography may come to this: It is the defining of observation full and felt.

Why, if all the creatures in the world gathered together to make a single gnat and put a soul into it, they would not succeed!' No more than man can make a gnat can demons, according to another tradition, make anything smaller than a grain of barley. But those who favored the thaumaturgic interpretation of the Book of Yetsirah, and believed that a man or golem could be created with its help,.... Idea of the Golem p. 171

A philosophy that does not include the possibility of soothsaying from coffee grounds and cannot explicate it cannot be a true philosophy." Such prophesying may be reprehensible, as in Judaism, but it must be recognized as possible from the connection of things.

I certainly do," said Mr. Alden. "I think S. M. means Sam McGregor.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one.

I always say that you cannot tell what a picture really is or what an object really is until you dust it every day and you cannot tell what a book is until you type it or proof-read it. It then does something to you that only reading it never can do.