Point Interpretive System

Famous quotes containing the words point, interpretive and/or system:

    “The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.”
    —Harry S. Truman (1884–1972)

    “The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.”
    —Paul De Man (1919–1983)

    “Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)