"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
This quote was said in Act II, Scene ii, from Hamlet to Rosencrantz. This quote really gets me in the fact that how simple it is but behind its simplicity is a very complex, and philosophical idea. My understanding of this quote is that he is saying nothing in the world is labeled until one labels it. It's hard to explain, but I feel he is saying we are all the same in a way, but once one chooses to think and differentiate, we become different, not through our own choices, but through the choices of others. This quote could go as far as support the idea of semiotics. It's one of these quotes that Shakespeare creates in his plays that are so casual and insignificant, yet can puzzle and capture the minds of students even hundreds of years later.
