See photo credit.
He decides to tell himself what he is like,
And then to believe it.
And he thinks this settles the matter—
As if he could not possibly be wrong.
But he could.
*I chose the image simply because it’s a man looking into the mirror. It just happens to be a depiction of Socrates, however, which fact I didn’t put in its caption for fear of it having any sway over how this piece might be read. The work is listed as: Socrates Looking in a Mirror, print, Bernard Vaillant, after Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)
