Quotes About Interpretation

At the same time, we noted that a number of scholars have tried to make more out of Thomas than this document can bear.

I kept reverting to my basic question: how does it help us to say that the Bible is the inerrant word of God if in fact we don't have the words that God inerrantly inspired, but only the words copied by the scribes—sometimes correctly and sometimes (many times!) incorrectly?

Second is the rise of higher criticism

Visual information trumps the dialogue every time.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, My God, you're RIGHT I NEVER would've thought of that'

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.

Strange how what one saw depended on how one looked.

Epictetus, stated it well when he wrote, "It is not the thing itself, but the view we take of it which distresses us.

The difference between "romantic" and "creepy" is the other person's reaction to it.

the picture, how many people are chasing the girl? 2. What is the girl carrying? 3. Does the girl have both her feet on the ground? 4. What are the man and woman holding? 5. Is the girl wearing socks? 6. Is the girl wearing polka-dotted shorts?

If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you are told that the king died and that the queen then died of grief, that is a story.

Pastors who do not know Greek are forced to borrow their ideas from others. They are slaves to the commentators, but have no means to check their accuracy. The best tools of interpretation are beyond their reach. Not even the English translations they use are completely trustworthy. Worst of all, without thorough training in Greek they may discover that they are passing on in the name of God their own ignorance, based upon erroneous interpretations.

Svako pamti na svoj na?in, svako živi sam u svom svetu, svako misli da je on onaj misle?i subjekat koji nam svojim postojanjem omogu?ava da uživamo u onome što vidimo kao stvarnost sveta.

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place.

There is absolutely nothing certain in this world, Noah, other than the truth you see directly in front of your eyes at a given moment. Truth has a habit of mutating itself; it is always possible that, no matter what the evidence in front of you might suggest, there can be another explanation for any event you can imagine.

Westerners think with their stomachs, Jews think with their hearts, Muslims think what they are told to think.

We live in a culture now where impact is more important than intent; where how things are taken is more significant than how they are meant.

it is the prerogative of those on the receiving end of any specific racism to define that racism.

We have to know what's meant

And while a hundred civilizations have prospered (sometimes for centuries) without computers or windmills or even the wheel, none have survived even a few generations without art.

As Adam Gopnik remarked in The New Yorker, "Post-modernist art is, above all, post-audience art." In