Quotes About Interpretation

Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

Once the human mind has favoured certain views, it pulls everything else into agreement with and support for them. Should they be outweighed by more powerful countervailing considerations, it either fails to notice these, or scorns them, or makes fine distinctions in order to neutralize and so reject them.

La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso mas alto es el peor amueblado.

La cabeza de muchas personas de alta estatura se parece a las casas; el piso más alto es el peor amueblado.

When talking about the violence of paint, it's nothing to do with the violence of war. It's to do with an attempt to remake the violence of reality iteslf.

And to make my meaning clearer and to familiarize the thing by giving it a name, I have chosen to call one of these methods or ways Anticipation of the Mind, the other Interpretation of Nature.

People of faith care how Scripture is read and interpreted because, like faith itself, Scripture is a gift given to the care of the Church for our salvation. God gives us these gifts because he wills us to be saved.

Seeing is a vigorous, pattern-seeking process.

We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can't steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that's how you will find your voice.

Kojève, interpreting Hegel in the 1930s, suggested that the idea of the modern state, once unleashed in the world, would eventually universalize itself because it was so powerful: those facing it would either conform to its dictates or be swallowed up.

A lot of historical writing has been characterized as ODTAA—"one damn thing after another"—without an effort to extract general rules or causal theories that can be applied in other circumstances.

museums have never existed when art is in good health and creative vitality flourishes. Museums are no more than cemeteries of art, catacombs in which the remains of what were once living things are arranged in sepulchral promiscuity (...) - Théophile Thoré (1861)

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

The Greeks did not understand each other any longer, though they spoke Greek.

Hans Fabermann insisted that 'mining', his only business, was not to be misinterpreted as being a cranial enterprize:

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)

Cuando los estetas se ponen metafísicos, suelen quedarse en alegóricos, y eso jode.

Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.

History is fables agreed upon.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

What once was apprehended in passion survives as opinion.