14 quotes found
“There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, static-y little signals that only hint at the compl...”
“The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128”
“In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one per...”
“The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.”
“All readings are also mis-readings, re-readings, partial readings, imposed readings, and imagined readings of a text that is originally and finally never simply there. Just as the world is original...”
“The meaning of life is not a searchit is a choice. Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things. The world means nothing by itself. You give it all the meaning it has. Thus, t...”
“A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to convey meaning from one code to the other. The transfer is never safe...”
“The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but ...”
“The context in which a photograph is seen affects the meaning the viewer draws from it.”
“I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.”
“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
“The meaning of life is not a search—it is a choice. Meaning is not found in things; meaning is what you make of things. The world means nothing by itself. You give it all the meaning it has. Thus, ...”
