Camille Paglia Quotes

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

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The meaning lies in the appropriation.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all in the way you read it.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.

Being that can be understood is language.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!