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"To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes."
- Geertz, Clifford

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35585/">To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2771/">Geertz, Clifford</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/self-image/">Self-image</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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