“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”

“What are we if we are not products of our history? History is not in our past but forms us in the present. And how histories are written or interpreted depends on what we do today.”

“Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.”

“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”

“Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.”

“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.”