A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
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Emerson (1884).John Morley
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.
William Whewell
Interpretation thus presupposes a discrepancy between the clear meaning of the text and the demands of (later) readers. It seeks to resolve that discrepancy. The situation is that for some reason a text has become unacceptable; yet it cannot be discarded. Interpretation is a radical strategy for conserving an old text, which is thought too precious to repudiate, by revamping it. The interpreter, without actually erasing or rewriting the text, is altering it. But he cant admit to doing this. He claims to be only making it intelligible, by disclosing its true meaning.
Susan Sontag
Every great architect is necessarily a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Look to the Great Eternal Cause
And not to any man, for light.
Look in; and learn the wrong, and right,
From your own soul's unwritten laws.
And when you question, or demur,
Let Love be your Interpreter.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. Even the best attempts at explanation are only more or less successful translations into another metaphorical language. (Indeed, language itself is only an image.) The most we can do is dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. And whatever explanation or interpretation does to it, we do to our own souls as well, with corresponding results for our own well-being. The archetype let us never forget this is a psychic organ present in all of us. A bad explanation means a correspondingly bad attitude toward this organ, which may thus be injured. But the ultimate sufferer is the bad interpreter himself.
Carl Jung
Morley, John, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Morley, Robert
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