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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed.
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.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.
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