Quotes About Interpretation

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

If the words of this book are misspelled, but accidentally spell other words correctly, and also accidentally fall into a grammatically coherent arrangement, where coherency is defined as whatever doesn't upset people, it means this book is legally another book, and not this book.

A therapist once said to me that I was a good storyteller, but he didn't mean it as a compliment.

Anh ch?ng Ä'úng cÅ©ng ch?ng sai, ch? b?i vì Ä'ám Ä'ông không ??ng ý vá»›i anh!

A criterion based on adjectives is always ambiguous.

The work of a financial analyst falls somewhere in the middle between that of a mathematician and of an orator.

One might even say that he had the last word. Derrida had criticized him for being too Christian. And Nancy replied to Derrida that he was too rabbinic.

there was no such thing as objective truth and if you think something's good because it speaks to you it is

In the dark, lord, all cats are black.

Assim que você escreve alguma coisa ela se torna fixa. Vira dogma. As pessoas passam a discutir a respeito, ficam autoritárias, referem-se aos textos, produzem manuscritos, discutem mais e logo estão matando umas às outras. Se você nunca escreve nada, ninguém sabe exatamente o que disse, de modo que sempre pode mudar.

Druids are not allowed to write anything down, it's against the rules. You know that! Once you write something down it becomes fixed. It becomes dogma. People can argue about it, they become authoritative, they refer to the texts, they produce new manuscripts, they argue more and soon they're putting each other to death. If you never write anything down then no one knows exactly what you said so you can always change it.

The spelling of place names in Anglo Saxon England was an uncertain business, with no consistency and no agreement even about the name itself. Thus London was variously rendered as Lundonia, Lundenberg, Lundenne, Lundene, Lundenwic, Lundenceaster and Lundres.

Says so in the scriptures

Bishop Asser was an earsling, which is anything that drops out of an arse.

Once you write something down it becomes fixed. It becomes dogma. People can argue about it, they become authoritative, they refer to the texts, they produce new manuscripts, they argue more and soon they're putting each other to death. If you never write anything down then no one knows exactly what you said so you can always change it.

There is probably no way for Westerners to understand Asian religions from a purely traditional Indian, Chinese, or Japanese perspective, but perhaps is there no need either to do so.

Perhaps the impossibility in which we are to rid ourselves of cultural and epistemological constraints does not prevent us from understanding other cultures, as long as we remain conscious of these constraints and consider them as providing the necessary perspective for any thick description.

My style flows from the fingers. The eye and ear approve or amend.

What will History say? - History, sir, will lie. As always.

Entre Ce que je pense, Ce que je veux dire, Ce que je crois dire, Ce que je dis, Ce que vous avez envie d'entendre, Ce que vous croyez entendre, Ce que vous entendez, Ce que vous avez envie de comprendre, Ce que vous croyez comprendre, Ce que vous comprenez... il y a dix possibilités qu'on ait des difficultés à communiquer. Mais essayons quand même...

Le monde se divise en deux catégories de gens : ceux qui lisent des livres et ceux qui écoutent ceux qui ont lu des livres.

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

Dis-lui que les livres ont la puissance que leur accorde leur lecteur et que celle-ci peut être sans fin.

Or was it a question of how the laws were actually interpreted and enforced at the time they committed their crimes, and that they were not applied to them? What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?