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“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
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“Would we could see all truly as it is;
The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.”
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
A Hill-Top View (1904); This is one of his earliest poems, printed in the Aurora, a student publication of Occidental College.
Context: O that our souls could scale a height like this,
A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak
Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak
Above the blinding clouds of prejudice,
Would we could see all truly as it is;
The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.
“Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.”
To a Louse, st. 8 (1786) http://www.poetry-online.org/burns_to_a_louse.htm <br class="br">Variant: O, wad some Power the giftie gie us<br>To see oursels as others see us!<br>It wad frae monie a blunder free us <br class="br">Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns <br class="br">Context: O, wad some Power the giftie gie us<br>To see oursels as others see us!<br>It wad frae monie a blunder free us,<br>An' foolish notion.<br>What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us<br>An' ev'n Devotion
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Section 4.22 <!-- p. 246 -->
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burning bush, the bush which was bright with fire and was not consumed; but afterwards, God spoke to him in a cloud. After the glory which could be seen with human eyes, he began to see the glory which is beyond and after light.
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The Beach (1941), Chapter 3, p. 20
C. Rajagopalachari (1878–1972) Political leader
Rajagopalachari, quoted in: R. K. Murthi (1979) Rajaji, life and work, p. 155
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Said during a late night visit to a sauna with Finland's president Kekkonen in June 1957. Translated from Våldets århundrade (2001) by Max Jakobson, p. 220 ISBN 9174866389