Background Image

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. you see? the way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. it is a balancing act and it is a dream. the more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. the most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. the tale is the map that is the territory. you must remember this.

-Neil Gaiman

Please Wait....
Translating....

One Describes A Tale Best By Telling

Neil Gaiman

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. you see? the way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. it is a balancing act and it is a dream. the more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. the most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. the tale is the map that is the territory. you must remember this.

Views: 5

Cite this Page

Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.

APA FORMAT

Embed this Quote

Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.

HTML CODE

<blockquote style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; border-left: 4px solid #8b5cf6; padding-left: 15px; margin: 20px 0; background: #f9f9f9; padding: 15px; border-radius: 4px; color: #333;">
    <p style="font-size: 1.2rem; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 10px;">"one describes a tale best by telling the tale. you see? the way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. it is a balancing act and it is a dream. the more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. the most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. the tale is the map that is the territory. you must remember this."</p>
    <footer style="font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold;">— Neil Gaiman</footer>
    <p style="margin-top: 15px; font-size: 0.85rem;"><a href="https://www.pjdigitalmarketing.com/quote/one-describes-a-tale-best-by-telling-the-tale-you-see-the-gcuzp" style="color: #8b5cf6; text-decoration: none;">View this quote on Www.pjdigitalmarketing.com</a></p>
</blockquote>

Topic

Dream Would Be Stories

More From Neil Gaiman

The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. the disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.

I've laid out a plan for how we keep people safe here at home, and i've laid out a plan of how we wage war and win by denying isis territory overseas. we must deny them their territory because the territory that they've conquered because hillary clinton and barack obama declared victory in iraq and against every generals advice withdrew all of our troops, leaving a vacuum, weaponry, territory for isis to conquer, that territory, their caliphate, is that from which they draw legitimacy, potency, credibility. we have to deny them that territory.

Studying the buddha way is studying oneself. studying oneself is forgetting oneself. forgetting oneself is being enlightened by all things. being enlightened by all things is to shed the body-mind of oneself, and those of others. no trace of enlightenment remains, and this traceless enlightenment continues endlessly.

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. the tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. never trust the artist. trust the tale. the proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . and here i return to my point. from my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.

Theology is like a map. merely learning and thinking about the christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. doctrines are not god: they are only a kind of map. but that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with god--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and i are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. and secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map.

Similar Quotes

By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. to those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. these happy and content sheep are never in danger. why? because they are near the shepherd!

I know not a better rule of reading the scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. we shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with his spiritual ointment.

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of god for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the bible.

Many christians backslide...they are unable to stand against the temptations of the world, or of their old nature. they strive to do their best to fight against sin, and to serve god, but they have no strength. they have never really grasped the secret: the lord jesus will every day from heaven continue his work in me. but on one condition-the soul must give him time each day to impart his love and his grace. time alone with the lord jesus each day is the indispensable condition of growth and power.

Trending Author

Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart

Dennis Hastert

Dennis Hastert

Frederick W. Smith

Frederick W. Smith

Merv Griffin

Merv Griffin

Gene Siskel

Gene Siskel

David Rakoff

David Rakoff

Category

Personal Growth

Happiness & Joy

Success & Business