Quotes About Interpretation

God didn't give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn't lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon all-you-can-eat sign. And God doesn't speak to people in bathrooms, public or otherwise.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is unlikely to look out.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Nowadays we already have books about books and descriptions of descriptions.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Ein Buch ist ein Spiegel wenn ein Affe hineinsieht so kann kein Apostel heraus gucken.

It requires no especially great talent to write in such a way that another will be very hard put to it to understand what you have written

No es que los oráculos hayan dejado de hablar, sino que los hombres han dejado de escucharlos.

En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos que no son sino iniciales de otras

En cierta obra de un hombre célebre preferiría leer lo que tachó que lo que dejó.

Cuando se empieza a ver todo en todo, la manera de expresarse suele volverse más oscura. Se empieza a hablar con lengua de ángel […].

Un libro es como un espejo: si un mono se asoma a él no puede ver reflejado a un apóstol. Carecemos de palabras para hablar con los tontos de sabiduría. Ya es sabio quien entiende a un sabio.

Si un ángel nos hablara de su filosofía, creo que algunas frases muy bien podrían sonar como "2 por 2 son 13".

Deus criou o homem à sua imagem. Isso provavelmente significa: o homem criou Deus à sua própria imagem.

Es difícil que en el mundo haya mercancía más singular que los libros. Son impresos, vendidos, encuadernados, reseñados y a veces hasta escritos por gente que no los entiende.

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

One man's poison ivy is another fellow's spinach.

One man's poison ivy,is another man's spinach.

The information I got from one person often contradicted the version I heard from another, so I'd long ago gotten into the habit of trying to hear as many different stories as I could and averaging them all out.

I don't see how My Fair Lady and Frankenstein are the same. Oh, wait a minute. Yes I do.

Indeed, it is very far from accurate to say that we see with our eyes. The eye is blind but for the idea behind the eye.