It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.
Seeing is not always believing.
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
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