Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Trust Me (1)

"There are no facts, only interpretations." Friedrich Nietzsche

"History is a selective interpretation of events designed to justify those currently in power. Memory is the same thing on an individual scale." Unknown

"The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality." Soren Kierkegaard

"Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation." Friedrich Nietzsche

"All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation." George Eliot

"We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth." Carl Jung

"No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it -- the meaning it has in his emotional economy; the way it affects his self-image." Bonaro Overstreet

"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." Noam Chomsky

"All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation." Walter Benjamin

"Taste has no system and no proofs." Susan Sontag

"The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie." Susan Sontag

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