Interpretation Quotes

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin; and in order to apply and develop, "simple interpretation" is obviously not enough.

About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.