Quotes About Interpretation

Through this interpretation of the biblical teaching on the Fall, Augustine, who had a brilliant capacity for analytical self-reflection far exceeding that of any other author of antiquity, effectively poisoned the entire Western Church with his doctrine on original sin, which is rejected down to this day by the Eastern churches.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone's observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).

Life isn't lived in the black and white, Wilde. People like to think so nowadays. All the online outrage, things are either all good or all bad. But life is lived in the gray. Life is lived in the nuances.

The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.

Most religious people don't believe the dogma, Ash. We take from it what we want, we discard what we don't. We form whatever narrative we like—kind God, vengeful God, active God, laid-back God, whatever. We just make sure we get something out of it. Maybe we get life everlasting while people we resent burn for eternity. Maybe we get something more concrete—money, a job, friends. You just change the narrative.

You read me," Myron said, "like Vasco da Gama reads a map." Dimonte

Wait." Vic put a hand to his ear, as though straining to hear. He was a small man except for the enormous bowling-ball gut. His face might be called "ferretlike," if the ferret was really ugly. "What?

Hey, come on, Myron, that was just talk." Ned tried to smile his way out of it, but Myron kept his face stern. "It didn't mean anything.

Most religious people don't believe the dogma, Ash. We take from it what we want

Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether.

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician.

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

The Slobs were written in a very 2D way, but Kathy Burke brought a touching quality to all her characters.