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To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.

— David Novak

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✓Similar Perspectives

Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.

— Georg Simmel

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.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Every individual is a person necessarily imbedded in a range of multiple relations, and therefore, no one is really independent in anything but a relative sense; no one is truly autonomous.

— David Novak

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

— Jasper Johns

All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

— Brendan Myers

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

— Naomi Campbell

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

— Georg Simmel

Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.

— Steve Alford

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.

— Ram Dass