Quotes About Interpretation

Everything is true in some sense, false in some sense, and meaningless in another sense.

Stories are tricky things, aren't they?

As if the years he had spent interpreting signs that no one else could even see had stretched him, pulled him out of focus.

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Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

La literatura no es una charada: es una actitud.

No es lo mismo estar dormido que estar durmiendo, de la misma manera que no es lo mismo estar jodido que estar jodiendo. -- En respuesta al senador y mosén Lluis María Xirinacs que le recriminaba estar dormido en su escaño del senado. --

So much of medicine is translation disguised as insight. You tell the doctor what's wrong with you in English and she tells you back in Greek, as the joke goes. Which is not to say that words can't taste like medicine. Placebo, in Latin, means "I shall be pleasing.

Literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together-and quite frankly, they often don't get along.

Stories are often layered with meaning. If you don't learn from a story's message, if you gloss over or dismiss it--even if it's a message with which you don't agree--then you have wasted not only your time but the writer's time as well.

Does everything always have to mean something else?" I ask before we get started. Who knew that literature was so tangled and complicated? "That is a wonderful lesson, Sang Ly. Remember it." "What was it again?" I ask, not certain to what she was referring. She repeats it for me. "In literature, everything means something.

But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together—and, quite frankly, they often don't get along.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

I must emphasize, no matter how obvious it sounds, that good curating depends upon a bottomless passion and curiosity for looking and questioning; and the desire to communicate that excitement. - Donna De Salvo

As the sensations of motion and discreteness led to the abstract notions of the calculus, so may sensory experience continue thus to suggest problem for the mathematician, and so may she in turn be free to reduce these to the basic formal logical relationships involved. Thus only may be fully appreciated the twofold aspect of mathematics: as the language of a descriptive interpretation of the relationships discovered in natural phenomena, and as a syllogistic elaboration of arbitrary premise.

In The Interpretation of Dreams, published two years before his jocular announcement, Freud had laid down his first principle of understanding the problems of dreams: "A dream is the fulfillment of a wish.

History," Burckhardt once observed, "is what one age finds worthy of note in another.

Projections change the world into the replica of one's own unknown face.

Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.