Quotes About Interpretation

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Dios es concebido de distintas formas dependiendo del desarrollo personal de los creyentes y según su contexto cultural.

I'm broken, I have a crack in me for all my life. I was made a woman prematurely, criminally early, and initiated into life from its worst side, in the false, boulevard interpretation of a self-confident aging parasite from former times, who profited from everything and allowed himself everything.

The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author.

They really thought what other people sing in songs.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.

I understand intimacy and life quite differently.

I spend every day showing people the power of history. But history only has the power you give it.

this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read.

When a man hears himself misrepresented, it provokes him Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But when the misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.

Religions were supposed to represent tolerance. But just like everything else in life, Harvarth had learned, it wasn't necessarily the philosophy that was flawed, but rather the human beings who were trying to interpret it.

But just like everything else in life, Harvath had learned, it wasn't necessarily the philosophy that was flawed, but rather the human beings who were trying to interpret it.

That was the difference between science and the intelligence field. Scientists came up with an answer and used it to find facts while intelligence operatives came up with facts and used them to find an answer.

The gypsies may not have known the language, but there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the words were spoken.

It was difficult to image quite where this gentleman [a statue] could have come from: he was a little too cheerful for a saint in a church and not quite comical enough for a coffee-house sign.

Mi sono reso conto che la ricerca della Conoscenza ci ha incoraggiato a pensare alla Casa come se fosse una sorta di enigma da sciogliere, un testo da interpretare, e che se mai scoprissimo la Conoscenza, allora sarebbe come se alla Casa venisse strappato via il valore lasciando soltanto una semplice scenografia. (...) La Casa ha valore in sé perché è la Casa. È sufficiente già di per sé. Non è un mezzo per arrivare a un fine.

Strange smiled. Or rather he twisted something in his face and Sir Walter supposed that he was smiling. Sir Walter could not really recall what his smile had looked like before.

Two memories. Two bright minds which remember past events differently. It is an awkward situation. There exists no third person to say which of us is correct.

Perhaps that is what it is like with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not. Perhaps that is what Raphael means.

It might well appear to Sir Walter that there had been no quarrel. It was often the case that gentlemen did not observe the signs.

It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.

Sir, please do not do that,' I said. 'The Other says that 16 is a malevolent person.' 'Malevolent? I wouldn't say so. No more than most people.

Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.

And so I have to ask myself: whose memory is at fault? Mine or his? [...] Two memories. Two bright minds which remember past events differently