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“The more I say the more remains to be said … as soon as I speak it becomes quite clear that, no matter how long I speak, new chasms open. No matter what I say I always have to leave three dots at the end. Whatever description I give always opens the doors to something further, something even darker, perhaps, but certainly something which is in principle incapable of being reduced to precise, clear, verifiable, objective prose.”
― Isaiah Berlin

“a lot of people have died because they read a book the wrong way”
― Rick Roderick

“You're missing the context of my thoughts. Don't misinterpret.”
― enlatia, Pandemiconium: Viral Conspiracy

“Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only “mouth honour” and that decreasingly. . . It is, if you like to put it that way, not merely a sacred book but a book so remorselessly and continuously sacred that it does not invite, it excludes or repels, the merely aesthetic approach. You can read it as literature only by a tour de force. You are cutting the wood against the grain, using the tool for a purpose it was not intended to serve. It demands incessantly to be taken on its own terms: it will not continue to give literary delight very long except to those who go to it for something quite different.”
― C.S. Lewis, Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian

“This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning.”
― Katie Kitamura, Intimacies

“The magician isn’t just performing sleights-of-hand but is also guiding our thinking by what’s called “magician’s patter.” The magician explains what’s happening. Of course, the magician isn’t saying what’s really happening, but the magician is using words and body language to trick our minds and make us think something is happening when it isn’t happening. In the same way, the devil, the culture, and our sinful flesh work to influence the way we interpret our experiences. Some of the tricks are extremely effective. Some of the tricks deliberately manipulate us. Other tricks are just natural deceptions.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“The most important aspect of both examples is that a definite choice was made, but you did not know it. Only one interpretation came to mind, and you were never aware of the ambiguity. System 1 does not keeop track of alternatives that it rejects, or even of the fact that there were alternatives. Conscious doubt is not in the repertoire of System 1; it requires maintaining incompatible interpretations in mind at the same time, which demands mental effort. Uncertainty and doubt are the domains of System 2.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“An odd feature of what happened is that your System 1 treated the mere conjunction of two words as representations of reality. Your body acted in an attenuated replica of reaction to the real thing, and the emotional response and physical recoil were part of the interpretation of the event. As cognitive scientists have emphasised in recent years, cognition is embodied; you think with your body, not only with your brain.”
― Daniel Kahneman

“...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (System 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has. In other words, ‘System 2’ is a better subject for a sentence than ‘mental arithmetic’. The mind – especially System 1 – appears to have a special aptitude for the construction and interpretation of stories about active agents, who have personalities, habits, and abilities.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Likewise, in this moment, when our collective memories about the past are hotly contested, it will be the work of like-minded people who will harness accurate histories of the past to better address our present.”
― Blair L.M. Kelley, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

“Surely we can take anything we want from anything, but to interpret a work as whatever we’d like is to fill in someone’s careful recipe with all of our old ingredients. You can still eat it, but you’ll always wonder why every new thing tastes the same.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Part of reparative reading is trying to think about how a story cannot do everything. Nothing can do everything. If you’re reading every text, fiction, or criticism looking for it to tick a bunch of boxes — like if it represents X, Y, and Z appropriately to my definitions of appropriate, and if it’s missing any of those things, it’s not good — you’re not really seeing the close focus that it has on something else.”
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

“The Artwork as Misunderstanding
There is a crisis with regard to Representation. They are looking for Meaning as if it was a thing. As if it was a girl, required to take her panties off as if she would want to do so, as soon as the true interpreter comes along.
As if there was something to take off.”
― Marlene Dumas, Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts

“Here’s how we interpret our experiences. Assumptions come out of our worldviews, and our worldviews are based on previous interpretations of experiences. This is why one person’s assumptions will often be very different from another person’s assumptions. Worldviews vary from person to person in extreme ways.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“At the end of all the filtering, we take the distorted perception of reality and add it to our worldviews. Since the worldview created most of the filter in the first place, most of what goes back into the worldview is confirmation bias.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate: The Absolute Proof of the Biblical Account

“The ideal interpreter should be one who has entered into that strange first-century world, has felt its whole strangeness, has sojourned in it until he has lived himself into it, thinking and feeling as one of those to whom the Gospel first came, and who will then return into our world, and give to the truth he has discovered a body out of the stuff of our own thought.

-- The Present Task in New Testament Studies”
― Charles Harold Dodd

“That time wen u are on the road and come across the storm, but within 3 minuets it’s all over as if nothing happened and u can now see the beauty of nature(the beauty of the sun,the shape of the clouds,feel the after rain breeze ).
That is why it’s Even a challenge to explain to someone about that storm or after storm bcoz they didn’t experience it the same or they were not there .and that is why it’s important sometimes to categorize.
The interpretation of events in life depends on your abilities.”
― Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala

“Metaphors can be read according to multiple interpretations; yet these interpretations can be more or less legitimated on the grounds of an underlying encyclopedic competence.”
― Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

“The understanding of signs is not a mere matter of recognition (of a stable equivalence); it is a
matter of interpretation.”
― Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

“Read The Story of O. Convince yourself that it was in fact written by a woman or someone who thinks like a woman.”
― Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt

“Such is the paradox of all thought which disputes the validity of the real: when it sees itself robbed of its own concept. Events, bereft of meaning in themselves, steal meaning from us. They adapt to the most fantastical hypotheses, just as natural species and viruses adapt to the most hostile environments. They have an extraordinary mimetic capacity: no longer is it theories which adapt to events, but the reverse. And, in so doing, they mystify us, for a theory which is verified is no longer a theory. It's terrifying to see the idea coincide with the reality. These are the death-throes of the concept. The epiphany of the real is the twilight of its concept.

We have lost that lead which ideas had over the world, that distance which meant that an idea remained an idea. Thought has to be exceptional, anticipatory and at the margin -- has to be the projected shadow of future events. Today, we are lagging behind events. They may sometimes give the impression of receding; in fact, they passed us long ago. The simulated disorder of things has moved faster than we have. The reality effect has succumbed to acceleration --anamorphosis of speed. Events, in their being, are never behind themselves, are always out ahead of their meaning. Hence the delay of interpretation, which is now merely the retrospective form of the unforeseeable event.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime

“The goal of architectural interpretation is not permanent knowledge. Architectural interpretations are subject to the general trends of the history of ideas. Interpretations are cumulative to a certain extent […] interrupted from time to time by ‘revolutions’ in which everything is re-examined, and old paradigms no longer relevant to present problems are abandoned. We interpret buildings in certain ways because, in doing so, we can throw light upon aspects of the world in which we live. Interpretations are discarded – like forms – not so much because we get bored with them, but because they cease to fulfil the initial, cultural role, and new interpretations more closely in line with contemporary interests are bound to arise in substitution of the old ones.”
― Bonta

“Empiricists say, “Where’s your evidence?” In fact, our evidence is every piece of evidence ever gathered by science. Our disagreement is not with the evidence, it’s with the interpretation of the evidence. Every scientist interprets the evidence via the Meta Paradigm of empiricism and materialism, leading to wholly bizarre and irrational conclusions. The correct way to interpret the evidence is via rationalism and idealism. When has any scientific experiment ever refuted rationalism and idealism and proved the truth of empiricism and materialism? Scientists are so ignorant and philosophically illiterate that they don’t even realize they are engaged in interpretation rather than factuality.”
― Thomas Stark, God Is Mathematics: The Proofs of the Eternal Existence of Mathematics

“What a big question… To be or not to be? Of course it is better to be. Hmm. It sounds like a big question, but maybe it’s actually stupid.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Jesus explained his identity and mission through his interpretation of the Old Testament and expected his disciples to see him in the words of the Old Testament Luke 24:25–27”
― John M. Sheehan, Walking In The Newness Of Christ

“Contrary to what a narrowly positivist conception of human sciences would like, these are not only about the real world, but also about two other dimensions, just as important: the imaginary dimension, which governs representations and fictions; and the symbolic dimension, which governs meanings and interpretations, more or less conscious. These three dimensions of reality — the reality of lived situations, the imagination as conveyed by discursive or iconic forms, the symbolism of productions of meaning — cannot be reduced to each other, because they possess their own necessity and coherence.”
― Nathalie Heinich, Wat onze identiteit niet is

“Si consideramos el sentido de esta manera, es decir, teniendo en cuenta sus relaciones con la institución o las instituciones, advertimos que en realidad se trata de un problema muy candente; desde hace siglos, casi todos los combates ideológicos de la humanidad, en cualquier caso de la humanidad occidental, son combates del sentido; en teología, en sociología o precisamente en filología, las polémicas, incluso combates muy violentos, siempre tienen lugar en torno a una interpretación.”
― Roland Barthes, Variaciones sobre la escritura

“Not everybody interprets great thoughts, but everybody interprets great actions.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Between the unattainable intention of the author and the arguable intention of the reader, there is the transparent intention of the text, which refutes untenable interpretations.”
― Umberto Eco, Confessions of a Young Novelist

“I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalism and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).”
― Marlene Dumas, Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts