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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other men are...
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the otherest.
Source: Representative Men, Uses of Great Men, 1850.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.