Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. Read Summary
The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. Read Summary
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Read Summary
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. Read Summary
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. Read Summary
There is no unique picture of reality. Read Summary
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Read Summary
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Read Summary
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. Read Summary
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. Read Summary
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading. Read Summary
I always try, when I'm singing songs, to interpret them the way that I would've arranged them. I think about the melody first, and then I pull out my guitar and start singing it. Read Summary
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. Read Summary
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. Read Summary
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' Read Summary
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. Read Summary
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.' Read Summary
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. Read Summary
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. Read Summary
Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. Read Summary