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What Hamlet means (he is talking to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern when he says this) is that moral judgments are relative. If you think something is good, it is. If you think it is bad, it is. He has just finished saying that "Denmark's a prison.", and Rosencrantz says "We think not so, my lord." Hamlet does not want to engage in a stupid argument about it, so he says "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison." In other words, "That's what I think, and I don't want to argue about it." Of course Shakespeare has him express this much more elegantly.

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