Quotes About Mistranslation

#1. There is no hell. The Witnesses believe hell is a mistranslation of Gehenna, which was an ancient garbage dump. They say that nonbelievers simply die at Armageddon, rather than being thrown into an inferno. "How can you have a kind and loving God who also roasts people?" he asks. I

A. J. Jacobs

#2. I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.

Rajneesh

#4. When there's somebody there who is transparent enough so that the stillness comes through unhindered, there's a reciprocal movement in you because the presence of stillness suddenly recognizes itself.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. It must be God first, God second, and God third

Oswald Chambers

#6. Catharsis. Revenge cleanses. Aristotle wrote that the human soul is purged by the fear and compassion that tragedy evokes. It's a frightening thought that we fulfil the soul's innermost desire through the tragedy of revenge, isn't it.

Jo Nesbo

#7. Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#8. The artist works by locating the world in himself

Gertrude Stein

#9. This book is intended for calm readers.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Dante Alighieri

#11. You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. Did you just say shrug instead of actually shrugging?

Chuck Wendig

#13. Eh bien! I no see not that that frog has nothing of better than another.

Mark Twain