However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.
It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.