Interpretation Quotes

"Let men see what they want to see." "To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual." "I am afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning " "You can't just take something, put it in a different context and expect it to be funny" "The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if we cannot understand them" "Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" "You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith." "Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts" "The strengthening of our statehood is at times deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism." "Sometimes we see the world as we are, not as it is" "History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice." "One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books." "I'm very much a believer in the audience being left with some things to chew over, some things to be questioned." "A word is dead when it is said, some say I say it just begins to live that day " "Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood" "The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts " "The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious" "We see the world, not as it is, but as we are or as we are conditioned to see it." "The way we see the problem is the problem." "All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation"