quotes about Hermeneutics

“Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.”

Source : "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

“Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of the insurance companies. I had never read anything like this until I was doing the film, but Mark [Joffe, the director] and people showed me stuff where, like a flood, it mattered where the water came from. If you're flooded from above, you get the money; if you're flooded from below, you don't. What's that about?”

“My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.”

“In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.”

“[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby .”

“I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.”

“It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.”

“It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who endure for ever to attain everything in a short time: and also, there is need of human virtue. If punishment followed instantly upon sin, men would act justly from fear and have no virtue.”

“People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.”

“It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.”