2015 Metaphor, Memory and Passage of Time

“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.”
― Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900
Reality seems to be the sum total of interpretations accepted by society therefore an individual can only understand a minute aspect of reality. The definition of “truth” is coupled to an understanding of a reality principle. That would mean that if reality is incomprehensible then it would be impossible to maintain that any individual statement could ever be considered “true”.