Our individual reality is borne out of our…

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

— James Joyce

I have collected the history of 'domestic,' 'indoor' socialism, bit by bit. The history of how it played out in the human soul. I…

— Svetlana Alexievich

[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only…

— Mati Unt

All that we "know" is what registers on our brains, so what you perceive (your individual reality-tunnel) is made up of nothing but thoughts—as…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“The first stage of the economy’s domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having — human fulfillment was no…

— Guy Debord

But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to…

— Albert Camus

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps…

— Irvin D. Yalom

What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and…

— Ben Okri

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of…

— Marya Hornbacher

“When we fail to reflect on the undercurrents of the circumstances of our life, we may have permanent misgivings about the quality of our…

— Erik Pevernagie

I think other people's interpretations of what I've written are a lot better than what I have, because I don't understand a lot of…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

— John Pfahl

I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of…

— Joan Allen

I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but…

— Cindy Sherman

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are…

— Paul Ricoeur