Interpretation Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “The text has disappeared under the interpretation.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interpretation
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world—in order to set up a shadow world of “meanings.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The essence of things is lost in translation, as love and understanding are lost in expectation.” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us... — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word. — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Interpretation must itself be evaluated, within a historical view of human consciousness. In some cultural contexts, interpretation is a liberating act. It is a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what the volume… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Apparently, I'm the angriest man. I don't know. It's just an interpretation. If it was someone else, they might be called focused or competitive.… — Alun Wyn Jones Copy Share Image
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's… — Gene Barry Copy Share Image
When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
