“Properly speaking, a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognise him.”
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch.10
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Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Source: 1950s-1960s, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1959, p. 13.
Book II, 2.35-[1]-[3]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book II
Context: I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth. On the one hand, the friend who is familiar with every fact of the story may think that some point has not been set forth with that fullness which he wishes and knows it to deserve; on the other, he who is a stranger to the matter may be led by envy to suspect exaggeration if he hears anything above his own nature. For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.
“It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence.”
Source: Philosophical Papers (1979), p. 56.
Source: Fifty years of information progress (1994), p. 7; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).
As quoted in "Dalai Lama honours Tintin and Tutu" at BBC News (2 June 2006)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 420.
“Christ has recognised and declared woman's equality with man”
On Women (1890)
