{"quotes":[{"text":"In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.","author":"Eli Of Kittim","tags":["academic","apocalyptic","bible","criticism","exegesis","gospels","hermeneutics","inspirational","interpretation","literary-analysis","new-testament","prophecy","symbolism","theology"],"id":4038,"author_id":"Eli+Of+Kittim"},{"text":"For a great many skeptics are put to waste. But this is meant in the sense that which they vainly focus their energy on ridiculing a certain tiny denomination of Biblical fundamentalism, a denomination seated just one chair away from unbelief; they, the skeptics, cannot believe because they are the most literal of fundamentalists: of those that which must interpret Scripture only by means of a sort of obsolete and dead script of intellectual incompetence. By all means, this is supposed to happen - Scripture states of itself that all thought and interpretation is folly without the Holy Spirit - but on the other hand, it seems, ironically, that if one thinks that the Bible is, in its true essence, an outdated text, he doesn't know much about the world around him nor those who live in it. Either that, or he doesn't know much about what it says in relation to the world around him nor to those who live in it. It's as though he, too, is dead to the world and it to him. He has no spirit: he can only possibly understand Scripture as deceased rather than the modern world's very living narrative.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","atheism","bible","christianity","dead","denominations","etymology","fundamentalism","god","hermeneutics","holy-spirit","ignorance","interpretation","knowledge","living","scripture","skepticism","theism","theology","wisdom","world"],"id":4983,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["adam-gottbetter","artistic","human-existence","interpretation","observation","observe","philosopher","philosophy-of-life","reaction","reactions","reality-of-life","stimulation","training"],"id":6988,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Honey, when you say we can't communicate... What exactly do you mean?","author":"Randy Glasbergen","tags":["communication","interpretation","marriage"],"id":7414,"author_id":"Randy+Glasbergen"},{"text":"The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in an interpretation. If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if it were a research problem for which any answer is believable so long as it is not obvious, then I think students will never learn to enjoy fiction. Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it.","author":"Flannery O'Connor","tags":["education","interpretation","words"],"id":17529,"author_id":"Flannery+O%27Connor"},{"text":"When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["familiarity","interpretation","literature","novels","readers","reading","realism","reality","robert-mccrum","translation","writing"],"id":18970,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"I study history in order to give an interpretation.","author":"Oliver Stone","tags":["study","interpretation","give "],"id":19254,"author_id":"Oliver+Stone"},{"text":"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.","author":"John Locke","tags":["actions","interpretation"],"id":20399,"author_id":"John+Locke"},{"text":"If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["ial-intent","classics","drama","interpretation","shakespeare"],"id":21064,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["archives","cultural","diaries","history","interpretation","letters","social"],"id":23245,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":125,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}