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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

— Karel Capek

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

— Edward Thorndike

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The man in the street is always a stranger.

— Mason Cooley

I've never met anyone that is their image.

— Macy Gray

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

— Raymond Chandler

✗Opposing Perspectives

In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

— Octavio Paz

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

— John Mayer

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

— Lord Byron