Quotes About Interpretation

The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

The question of boundaries is the first to be encountered; from it all others flow. To draw a boundary around anything is to define, analyze, and reconstruct it, in this case, select, indeed adopt, a philosophy of history.

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

No observer is the observer of what is purely and simply given by reality; all observations and all interpretations are the observations and interpretations of persons grounded in and limited by the historical time in which they observe and interpret. These

Many people find that they frequently slip into negative, unproductive moods, and, once in these moods, it can be difficult to shift out of them. We suggest that this happens because most people have an interpretation of mood and emotion that limits their power to observe and change their moods.

No one is privy to the final truth or understanding about anything.

No observer is the observer of what is purely and simply given by reality; all observations and all interpretations are the observations and interpretations of persons grounded in and limited by the historical time in which they observe and interpret.

most people have an interpretation of mood and emotion that limits their power to observe and change their moods.

Somos los humanos quienes creamos dioses a nuestra imagen y semejanza, y no al revés.

La ciencia describe y explica la realidad, pero la literatura expresa lo que supone para nosotros formar parte de esa realidad. A

I think it is highly likely that – with some differences – everything has already been written. But the fact is that, in literature, the what doesn't matter: what matters is how. Originality in literature does exist, and we can find it – basically and maybe exclusively – in how we write, not what we write about.

I have often received messages from diverse readers that, with some variations, pose similar questions. For example: 'What did you want to symbolize with: a) the man that hits another man on his head with an umbrella? b) the mosquito that dominates the man? c) the fifty chastising lambs?' In all cases my answers, in these words or words like these, are; When I write a story I try to make it the best possible story in a literary sense: I just want to write a story.

Possibly people seek nonexistent meanings due to the tendency of "intellectuals" wanting to show themselves as "intelligent.

My narrators tell their stories as if not fully understood, which in turns helps the reader to arrive at their own conclusion.

There is no question that the style is more important than the subject matter.

Y he ahí la ventaja de la palabra sobre la imagen. La palabra se mete por donde quiere, va, viene, fluye, se escabulle, atraviesa paredes y ve sin que la vean, registra sin cambiar.

Si me entienden? ¿O estoy tan viejo que ya no me entienden?

Y cómo lo supieron? ¿Acaso son Dostoievsky o Dios padre para meterse en la mente de otros?

Could you imagine people eating a painting -- if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.

Literature makes one sensitive, sensitive to people, to their dreams and to their ideas.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.