Quotes About Interpretation

the way art can become, eventually, all we have of what was true.

We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself.

When I am thus able to be in process, it is clear that there can be no closed system of beliefs, no unchanging set of principles which I hold. Life is guided by a changing understanding of and interpretation of my experience. It is always in process of becoming.

In sum, the social imaginary is the way people think about the world, how they imagine it to be, how they act intuitively in relation to it—though that is emphatically not to make the social imaginary simply into a set of identifiable ideas.3 It is the totality of the way we look at our world, to make sense of it and to make sense of our behavior within it.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

In 1877 he published his paper "Probabilistic foundations of heat theory", in which he formulated what Einstein later called the Boltzmann principle; the interpretation of the concept of entropy as a mathematically well-defined measure of what one can call the "disorder" of atoms, which had already appeared in his work of 1872, is here extended and becomes a general statement.

Gli storici, scrisse Aristotele (Poetica, 51 b) parlano di quello che è stato (del vero), i poeti parlano di quello che avrebbe potuto essere (del possibile). Ma naturalmente il vero è un punto d'arrivo, non un punto di partenza. Gli storici (e, in modo diverso, i poeti) fanno per mestiere qualcosa che è parte della vita di tutti: districare l'intreccio di vero, falso, finto che è la trama del nostro stare al mondo.

Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.

The world is complex, and we capture it with different languages, each appropriate to the process that we are describing.

Science is about reading the world from a gradually widening point of view.

What I see, in other words, is not a reproduction of the external world. It is what I expect, corrected by what I can grasp. The relevant input is not that which confirms what we already know, but that which contradicts our expectations.

Newton's mechanics, Maxwell's equations, quantum mechanics, and so on, tell us how events happen, not how things are.

Looking at the sun going down, the eyes of Copernicus had seen the world turning. Looking at a glass of still water, the eyes of Boltzmann saw atoms and molecules frenziedly moving.

Or does it mean, as it seems to me, that we must accept the idea that reality is only interaction?

La descarada investigación de uno mismo, la vocación autobiográfica, es en literatura, con independencia de cuál sea la altura de los resultados, una dimisión frente a una parte considerable del proyecto de interpretación del mundo en que uno se siente existir, en todo caso un repliegue al ángulo más fácil

Penetra surdamente no reino das palavras Lá estão os poemas que esperam ser escritos.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Hiçbir ?ey temsilinin d???nda vuku bulmaz," diye itiraz etti iki delikanl? ile sözünü esirgemeyen Yahudi bir k?z. "Herkes istedi?i temsili seçme hakk?na sahiptir.

As if I were a calf at auction, Henry asked me to stand in profile. That night I was wearing knit pants, and my swelling outline must have been dramatic, but unable to see myself as others did, and curious but not offended by Henry's request, I turned forty-five degrees to the left. Across the room, the writer made an alarmed-sounding noise. Henry announced, to no one in particular, "You see?" The

I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.

Si usted ha creído verlo es que ha pasado. No todos vemos las mismas cosas.

There's no way of calculating how many ramifications a story will take on once one spies a gleam of attention in another's eyes.

7 percent of a person's message is conveyed through words and 93 percent is conveyed nonverbally (38 percent vocal tone; 55 percent body language).