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Quotation from The Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. We can only see what we are, and if we misbehave we suspect others.”
The Conduct of Life, VI. Worship (Project Gutenberg #39827)
Emerson argues that how we judge the world reveals our own character. The first sentence circulates in reworded form as 'People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character'; the wording here is Emerson's.
Citation: "People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. We can only see what we are, and if we misbehave we suspect others." — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life, VI. Worship (Project Gutenberg #39827). (id emerson-conduct-of-life-q1)
