Interpretation Quotes - Page 17

• Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the deepest interpretation, is the absolute, is God. Man in his highest form, the genius, has such a relation, and for him the absolute is either the conception of the highest worth of existence, in which case he is a philosopher; or it is the wonderful fairyland of dreams, the kingdom of absolute beauty, and then he is an artist.

  Otto Weininger

  Dream, Artist, Reality

  "Sex & Character".

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• In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

  John D'Agata

  College, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Determination, Lying, Science

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• What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

  Epictetus

  Life, Thinking, Events

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up. I believe we are creating in every moment - making up our reality, so to speak - so when anything gets chaotic or I feel spun out, I remind myself that everything is an interpretation. I can look at it differently and make it work for me in a more positive light.

  Dash Mihok

  Morning, Believe, Reality

  "Dash Mihok Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  Gratitude, Benefits

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• The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  War, Responsibility, Technology

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• 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 of girl pride—a shout-out to the self. … The selfie suggests something in picture form—I think I look [beautiful] [happy] [funny] [sexy]. Do you?—that a girl could never get away with saying. It puts the gaze of the camera squarely in a girl’s hands, and along with it, the power to influence the photo’s interpretation.

  Rachel Simmons

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• 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 of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Responsibility, Numbers

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• 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 their rating through man's interpretation of their attitude towards lower animals. These animals have been seen feeding in what appears to be a savage manner. But this behavior may perhaps be comparable to a man tearing the flesh off a chicken leg with his teeth.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Attitude, Animal, Men

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• All poetic inspiration is but dream interpretation.

  Hans Sachs

  Inspirational, Dream, Poetic

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• 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 and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.

  Brock Chisholm

  Family, Children, Intelligent

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• 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. The very word sad gives you wrong connotations - that something is wrong. This is your interpretation. To me, life in its totality is good.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Sadness, Giving

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• 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

  Reality, Guilt, Satanic

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• 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 and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Lying, Guilt, Arbitrary

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• 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 is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles.

  Albert Mackey

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Principles

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• Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Learning, Data, Problem

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Punctuation Marks, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.

  David Simon

  Healing, Reality, Old Habits

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• My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know" or "I didn't know." Then comes a period, followed by "Am I my brother's keeper?"

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Different, Cain

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• From my personal experience I can conclude that many dreams are clearly written but there are some in which one meets distortions to decipher. And it is really in knowing when one must prefer the one or the other approach, or a combination of the two, that remains one of the important elements of the art of dream interpretation.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Art, Two

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• The religious and irreligious are agreeing with each other almost all the time. Their rhetoric is the same, and their plans are the same. Through slightly different interpretations, they all think the same thing is going to happen, that the Earth is going to be perfected and that humans are going to do the work of perfecting it.

  Christine Jennings

  Religious, Thinking, Earth

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Simple, Men

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• What I want to avoid is staying at the same place. As I improve in skills, musical interpretations, and acting, I am able to approach each element of my programs with perfection. As Im preparing, I build momentum and confidence until I reach a peak of concentration. It is the moment that I feel my best. Then I can bring out one hundred percent, which makes me satisfied with myself. This is my goal.

  Yuna

  Skills, Goal, Perfection

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• Dodd-Frank is 2,000 pages long. It covers thousands of rules, regulations, interpretations and things like that.

  Jamie Dimon

  Long, Regulation, Pages

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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