Interpretation Quotes - Page 31

• The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Christian, Book, Logos

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p.217, 1988.

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• This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Lying, Keys, Ideas

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• A different conception of society, very different from that which now prevails, is in process of formation. Under the name of Anarchy, a new interpretation of the past and present life of society arises, giving at the same time a forecast as regards its future, both conceived in the same spirit as the above-mentioned interpretation in natural sciences. Anarchy, therefore, appears as a constituent part of the new philosophy, and that is why Anarchists come in contact, on so many points, with the greatest thinkers and poets of the present day.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Past, Names

  "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Lecture by Peter Kropotkin, translated by Harry Lyman Koopman, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. 1898.

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• We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Ridicule, Word Of God

  "'De genesi ad litteram libri duodecim' ('The Literal Meaning of Genesis')". Book by Augustine, Part I, www.newadvent.org. 415.

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• Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

  Robert Bridges

  Lying, Magic, Accepted

  "The Necessity of Poetry Tredegar". Book by Robert Bridges, 1917.

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• For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

  William-Adolphe Bouguereau

  Art, Purpose, Landscape

  "19th Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture", Sotheby's (Firm), p. 123, 1994.

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• As you can imagine, over the years I have been asked many times to discuss and explain my song "American Pie." I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the Holly reference in the opening stanzas. You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me. You will find many “interpretations” of my lyrics but none of them by me. Isn’t this fun? Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.

  Don McLean

  Song, Sorry, Moving

  "What Is Don McLean’s Song 'American Pie' All About?". www.straightdope.com. May 15, 1993.

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• When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Order, Evil, Ego

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Nietzsche and Philosophy”, p.7, A&C Black

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• We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Doubt, Facts, Observation

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

  Woody Allen

  Laughter, Fall, Thinking

  "'Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker'". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes science; when he uses feelings for interpretation, it becomes poetry; when he takes a longer view of his observations, it becomes wisdom.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Wisdom, Men, Views

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• You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

  Robert Frost

  Mean, Littles, Lost

  "Robert Frost: A Backward Look". Book by Louis Untermeyer, January 1, 1964.

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• We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

  Stephen Young

  Obscure, Deeper, Deeper Meaning

  Stephen Young (2006). “Micromessaging”, p.14, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Song, Book, Thinking

  "Not The Average Philosopher". Harvard Magazine, Volume 99, Number 5, May/June 1997.

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• Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted. By this notion of 'interpretation' I mean that everything of which we are conscious, as enjoyed, perceived, willed, or thought, shall have the character of a particular instance of the general scheme.

  Charles Hartshorne

  Philosophy, Character, Mean

  "The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics" by Charles Hartshorne, (p. viii), 1962.

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• The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

  Real, Religion, World

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• Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.

  David Harvey

  Errors, Judging, Political

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of all things but as their norm or standard, we create in ourselves, if not an interpretation, at least a criticism of the universe, which we don't even know and therefore cannot criticize. The giddiest, most weak-minded of us then promote that criticism to an interpretation that's superimposed, like a hallucination; induced rather than deduced. It's a hallucination in the strict sense, being an illusion based on something only dimly seen.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Self, Giving

  Fernando Pessoa (2005). “The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive”

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• Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.

  Grant Morrison

  Real, Artist, Generations

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• Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unique, Levels

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• With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.

  Rajneesh

  Mirrors, Ego, Perception

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• A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

  Fred Hoyle

  Science, If There Is A God, Numbers

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• It’s so hard to communicate because there are so many moving parts. There’s presentation and there’s interpretation and they’re so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult.

  Garth Stein

  Moving, Difficult, Communicate

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

  Joss Whedon

  Art, Growing Up, Kids

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 10, 2012.

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• The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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