Quotes · Skopia

5 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Interpretation and analysis✕clear

Psychological literature

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The Interpretation of Dreams · 1899

★ 5.5

One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader.

1897

★ 5.5

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 3.9

Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white.

The Everlasting Gospel · 1818

★ 3.7

It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.8