As we see our face, figure, and dress in the glass, and are interested in them because they are ours, and pleased or otherwise with them according as… - Charles Cooley

Sympathy is a requisite to social power. Only in so far as a man understands other people and thus enters into the life around him has he any effective existence; the less he has of this the more he is a mere animal, not truly in contact with human life. And if he is not in contact with it he can of course have no power over it.

If failure or disgrace arrives, if one suddenly finds that the faces of men show coldness or contempt instead of the kindliness and deference that he is used to, he will perceive from the shock, the fear, the sense of being outcast and helpless, that he was living in the minds of others without knowing it, just as we daily walk the solid ground without thinking how it bears us up.

Yo sé, lo que lo creo que soy.
Yo sé lo que tú crees que yo soy.
Y yo soy lo que yo creo que tú crees que yo soy.