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Fri 28 Dec, 2007 10:07 am
"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." - William James
@de Silentio,
nice.i yhink i had read it somewhere before.who is william james,a pschologist?
@de Silentio,
nice.i think i had read it somewhere before.who is William James,a psychologist?
@de Silentio,
de Silentio wrote:"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." - William James
This quote proves that his thinking was connected also with the movement of
dialogical individualism of 20th century (classical work of this movement was "I and You" of Martin Buber)
@Nitish,
Nitish wrote:nice.i think i had read it somewhere before.who is William James,a psychologist?
I'm pretty sure he was a psychologist. And many other things too.
@de Silentio,
de Silentio wrote:"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." - William James
Ah, but then there is the
woman in each man :p