Quotes About Interpretation

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

The result of our previous discussion is that our axioms, if interpreted as meaningful statements, necessarily presuppose a kind of Platonism, which cannot satisfy any critical mind and which does not even produce the conviction that they are consistent.

Bemerkung: Sonderbarerweise sind auch die Tatsachen, welche wir absolut sicher wissen (2 + 2 = 4, ich heiße Kurt) aus Begriffen zusammengesetzt, die wir nicht vollkommen verstehen (und die sehr kompliziert sind). 2 Erklärungen dafür: 1.) Das Einfache in der Welt sind die Tatschen und nicht die Begriffe. 2.) Diese sicheren Tatschen sind so, dass sie bei einem sehr weiten Spielraum von möglichen Interpretationen für Begriffe gelten.

There is a difference between a thing and talking about a thing.

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

Man muss nicht alles so genau verstehen, lesen genügt auch...

That story always seemed very symbolic to me...Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.

Die Welt zerfällt in Groß- und Kleingedrucktes.

And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)

En los textos antiguos, "explícito" significaba "repentino" e "inesperado". ¿Lo sabías?

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.

JOHN Alton's eyes moved from the deep blue carpet to the portrait of some old white guy

The most rigorous reading is to find what those words on that page mean in our own lives.

Rigor is not an attribute of a text but rather a characteristic of our behavior with that text.

Europeans believe that culture is something they can grasp and touch because, for them, culture is comprised of objects, or remnants of objects, and this object, this remnant, conceals within it the essence of the original. For the Chinese, the matter is completely different---for them, the essence of culture can only be preserved in spiritual form.

az Å'rület egy homályban tartott kérdés, amelyre van válasz ugyan, csak olyan, amit egy néma mond egy süketnek.

The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong.

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION.

The world existed to be read. And I read it.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.