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All religions are based on obsolete terminology. — Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
Let not the rash marble riskgarrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence,in many words recallingname, renown, events, bi — Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems
Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies bey — Epictetus
Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the — Orson Welles
Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it se — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have n — Anne Carson, Nox
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is — Don DeLillo
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to co — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word ca — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret su — Jorge Luis Borges, El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan
When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
I'm going to go where my heart takes me, even if it's a messy road. — Ha Myung-hee (writer), said by Dr. Jung YoonDo, Doctors (닥터스)
Sometimes when a father has an ugly, loutish son, the love he bears him so blindfolds his eyes that he does not see his — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know a — Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Abba is not Hebrew, the language of liturgy, but Aramaic, the language of home and everyday life … We need to be wary of — Thomas Allan Smail, The Forgotten Father
The original language of Christianity is translation. — Lamin Sanneh
We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the t — Kamand Kojouri
For Japanese people before 1868, Europeans were little more than curious beasts, strange and incomprehensible. Then, aft — Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English