Quotes About Interpretation

Here, then, is another proposition: The medium is not the message; the message becomes what the receiver makes of it, applying to it his own codes of reception, which are neither those of the sender nor those of the scholar of communications.

But then how can we trust ancient wisdom, whose traces you are always seeking, if it is handed down by lying books that have interpreted it with such license? Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means, a precept that the commentators of the holy books had very clearly in mind.

metaphor is not only a means of delight but also, and above all, a tool of cognition...

Nu înÈ›elegeam niciodat? când glumea. Pe la noi, când se glumeÅŸte, se spune ceva, apoi se râde zgomotos, încât toÈ›i s? poat? lua parte la glum?. Guglielmo râdea, în schimb, numai când spunea lucruri serioase ÅŸi r?mânea foarte serios când de fapt glumea.

Pero los periódicos ¿siguen las tendencias de la gente o las crean? —Ambas cosas, señorita Fresia. La gente al principio no sabe qué tendencia tiene, luego nosotros se lo decimos y entonces la gente se da cuenta de que la tiene.

Um Humanwissenschaften zu betreiben, genügt es nicht, Kriminalromane zu lesen, als ob sie Parmenides wären, man muß auch Parmenides lesen, als ob er ein Kriminalroman wäre.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb. This

Toda imagen estética está superada por las imágenes posibles que suscita, que abre. Sin embargo, no podría manifestarse ningún desvarío, porque la experiencia tiene lugar sobre y en el objeto.

someone has mixed and shuffled the words of the Book more than was right.

If there is something paradoxical, in the sense of curious or bizarre, it is that the word paradox has two fairly different meanings: one which is used in logic and philosophy, and the other in rhetoric.

he would learn—truth is brief (afterward, it is all commentary). So

so we must spell out its faithful signals even when they seem obscure to us and as if amalgamated with a will wholly bent on evil.

luther, he ruined the bible by translating it into their own language.

Empirical objects become signs (or they are looked at as signs) only from the point of view of a philosophical decision.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously three old owls on a chest of drawers were screwing the daughter of the doctor. But then the mother called them, colorless green ideas slepp furiously.

For him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.

Cuando hablo con Ubertino me da la impresión de que el infierno es el paraíso visto desde la otra parte. No

Ho messo Praga proprio all'inizio perché è una tra le mie città magiche. Ma mi piace anche Dublino. Metta Dublino al posto di Praga, non farà nessuna differenza. A quel punto la reazione dei traduttori fu: Ma Dublino non è stata invasa dai russi! Al che risposi: Non è colpa mia.

So it is best for you to withdraw into the world of your portents, for there at least you can decide yourself how portentous they are.

Ce ne sont pas les informations qui font le journal, mais le journal qui fait l'information. Et savoir rassembler quatre nouvelles différentes signifie en proposer au lecteur une cinquième.

Often books speak of books.

hell is heaven seen from the other side.

When one has a text to question, it is irrelevant to ask the author.

Los libros no se han hecho para que creamos lo que dicen, sino para que los analicemos. Cuando cogemos un libro, no debemos preguntarnos qué dice, sino qué quiere decir