It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
Interpretation
Self-judgment is more challenging than judging others due to our biases and emotions.
This quote emphasizes the inherent difficulties in self-reflection and self-assessment compared to the relative ease of evaluating others. It suggests that personal judgments are clouded by emotions, biases, and a lack of perspective, making it a complex and often uncomfortable process.
In practice
During a personal development workshop, discussing the difficulties people face in self-evaluation.
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.
Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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