John GreenAnybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.
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The concept of "seeing the same world" as someone else dates back to antiquity. For example, Antisthenes, a Greek philosopher and pupil of Socrates, believed that we see the world as we want to see it. Tragedy and comedy were judged by this perceived truth. Plutarch, a Greek biographer and writer of the first century A.D., claimed that anyone could be a philosopher; you just had to look at the world as if it were a great work of art.
Source: Turtles All The Way Down
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