“There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.”
Erving Goffman (1971), Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction, p. 38; As quoted by R. D. Laing in The Politics of Experience
1970s-1980s
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“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”
Source: "Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure", 1976, p. 308

Part III : The English Revolution, § II
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
Variant: One person's crazyness is another person's reality

“And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.”
As quoted in "Terry Gilliam reflects to Dreams about the making of Dr Parnassus" by Phil Stubbs http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/parntgrf.htm
Context: We read Dover Books, because you can steal from them. The medieval imagery and iconography is so good for the imagination. Trying to describe the world, trying to describe the cosmos, trying to put it down in neat orderly fashion, unlike reality. And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 110