Interprets Quotes
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In his 1916 essay "The Exceptions", Sigmund Freud interprets Richard's opening soliloquy saying "we all demand reparation for early wounds to our narcissism, our self-love."
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More Interprets Quotes
The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment … seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by “the death of God” and of the subordinate god, Eros.
Allan Bloom— p. 15 (Love and Friendship (1993))
Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
Albert Einstein— p. 98 (Einstein and the Poet (1983))
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
karl marx— Che Guevara, Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution, 1960
De Bono’s research concluded that the brain is indeed a self-organizing system that routinely interprets inputs into patterns. It is not then inherently designed for creativity. However, if certain lateral thinking tools are applied, the brain can be encouraged or trained to become more creative.
edward de bono— J. Bailey( 2007). "Profile lateral thinking: Edward De Bono." Engineering Management Journal, 17(5), p. 46
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
john gilmore— As quoted in TIME magazine (6 December 1993)
— Unsourced variant:
In various talk th' instructive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last;One speaks the glory of the British queen,And one describes a charming Indian screen;A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;At every word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Part III, line 11. (This stanza not found in his printed works).
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .
cesare pavese— 1948-01-25
In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Part III, line 11. (This stanza not found in his printed works).
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
— John Gilmore, as quoted in TIME magazine (6 December 1993)
— Paraphrased variant: The Internet treats censorship as a defect and routes around it.
The fact that map is a fuzzy and radial, rather than a precisely defined, category is important because what a viewer interprets a display to be will influence her expectations about the display and how she interacts with it.
— Alan MacEachren (2004). How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design, The Guilford Press. p. 161
Psychoanalysis, which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the relationship of the individual to society , must consider it a duty to participate in the investigation of sociological problems to the extent the human being or his/her psyche plays any part at all.
— Erich Fromm "Psychoanalyse und Soziologie" (1929); published as "Psychoanalysis and Sociology" as translated by Mark Ritter, in Critical Theory and Society : A Reader (1989) edited by S. E. Bronner and D. M. Kellner
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
— Che Guevara "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution" (8 October 1960)
