The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.
Charlotte BrontëTags: soul mind eyes interpretation
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John LockeTags: actions interpretation
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan SontagTags: intelligence art scholarship criticism art-criticism scholars interpretation critique
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.
Edward W. SaidTags: knowledge history interpretation human-society
Theologians and other clerks,
You won't understand this book,
-- However bright your wits --
If you do not meet it humbly,
And in this way, Love and Faith
Make you surmount Reason, for
They are the protectors of Reason's house.
Tags: religion feminism bible theology interpretation medieval mystic
I have forgotten my umbrella.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: philosophy aphorism interpretation derrida
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.
Orson Scott CardTags: story interpretation
[...] it is safer to wander without a guide through an unmapped country than to trust completely a map traced by men who came only as tourists and often with biased judgement.
Marie-Louise SjoestedtTags: scholarship interpretation translation
I should like to write about what happens when fictive people encounter and are embellished by real people.
Jean GionoTags: reading fiction interpretation
...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality... But I had gradually come by this time, i.e., 1836 to 1839, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow at sign,
Charles DarwinTags: doubt belief atheism miracles metaphors hell skepticism interpretation evidence divine-revelation
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