Quotes about Interpretation

Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.

Man can live the most amazing things if they make sense to him. But the difficulty is to create that sense.

all eschatological interpretation of history, when united to a strong religious mentality cannot but produce the finest practical theological fruitage.

Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.

If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.

She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love; it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.