Interpretation Quotes

499 quotes by 434 authors

The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use… — Albert Mackey
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true… — Hilary of Poitiers
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith... — Anton Szandor LaVey
You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful, but still sad.… — Rajneesh
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent… — Brock Chisholm
All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation. — Hans Sachs
There are a few animals that have won themselves a bad reputation even though they have little or no effect on man. They have won… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure… — Martin Filler
Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any… — Mark Rylance
These days, the selfie and its main outlet, Instagram, generally come in for much adult loathing. But consider this: The selfie is a tiny pulse… — Rachel Simmons
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is. — Nathalie Sarraute
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it. — Seneca the Younger
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during… — Christopher Dawson
To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one… — Witold Gombrowicz
The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics. — Victor J. Stenger
I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them… — Wayne Coyne
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze,… — Alberto Villoldo
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation. — William Whewell
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations… — Sherry Turkle
There is no such thing as an objective interpretation. — Devdutt Pattanaik

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