Quotes About Interpretation

He became what his language made him.

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In order to express our sense of reality, we must use some kind of symbol: words or notes or shades of paint or television pictures or sculpted forms. None of those symbols or images can ever completely satisfy us because they can never be any more than what they are—a fragment of a reflection of what we feel reality to be.

and a man, half black and half white, on his right arm. That means something in skinhead lore, but I don't know what.

One can't say that figures lie. But figures, as used in financial arguments, seem to have the bad habit of expressing a small part of the truth forcibly, and neglecting the other part, as do some people we know.

Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

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The Prison-House of Language

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

if the Bible was meant to say anything, it was meant to say it within a community,

Only that which cannot be expressed otherwise is worth expressing in music.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

Always historicize!

it is a mistake to think that Marxism is simply a type of interpretation that takes the economic "sequence" as that ultimately privileged code into which the other sequences are to be translated. Rather, for Marxism the emergence of the economic, the coming into view of the infrastructure itself, is simply the sign of the approach of the concrete.

The text is not inserted into a genetic process in which it is understood as emerging from this or that prior moment of form or style; nor is it 'extrinsically' related to some ground or context which is at least initially given as something lying beyond it. Rather, the data of the work are interrogated in terms of their formal and logical and, most particularly, their semantic conditions of possibility.

La beauté est dans les yeux du spectateur.

Jeg får vel ta meg en kikk på ham. Forfattere er alltid litt tvilsomme personer, men jeg vet nok hvordan jeg skal ta den slags typer.

corroborar la lógica de que a cada observado le corresponde un observador que, siendo a su vez observado por aquel observado, se convierte él mismo en observado [...]

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.