There are ... intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and wh...ich are excluded for lack of interpreters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would m...ean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hold that it is true that dreams are faithful interpreters of our drives; but there is an art to sorting and understanding them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigot...ries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to ...gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods. Such persons know that, with the removal of ignorance, the wonder which forms their only available means for proving and preserving their authority would vanish also.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hence anyone who seeks for the true cause of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and no...t to gaze at them as a fool, is set down and denounced as a impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams--Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility... of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even of old the Christian world, so bitterly antagonistic to any ideas not specifically contained in their creeds and dogmas, made... an exception in Socrates' case. They recognized his likeness to Christ. He was the example that a soul could be Christlike not through grace, but by nature. Erasmus said, "Holy Socrates, pray for us." To know him is a help to knowing Christ, and it is not hard to know him. We can see him quite clearly. Plato who drew his portrait, could not, of course, keep himself out of it, any more than Christ's recorders could, but at least magic did not dog Plato's footsteps as it did everyone's footsteps when the Gospels were written. In the fourth century B.C. Greeks had no leaning to marvels. Also in the centuries that followed no one founded a church on Socrates and built up around him a theology and hung creeds and ceremonials upon him. To see what he was we do not have to brush anything away except a bit of Plato. We can use him as a stepping stone to Christ, a first aid in realizing what Christ was.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »