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He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.

— Erik Erikson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

— Ruth Benedict

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

— T. S. Eliot

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

— Arthur Henderson

I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

— Aaron Neville

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

— Flannery O'Connor

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

— Giacomo Leopardi

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

— William Gilmore Simms

✗Opposing Perspectives

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

— Alfred Doblin