Seeing through people is so easy, and it gets you nowhere,' remarked Elias Canetti, suggesting how effortlessly and yet how uselessly we can find fault with others.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it’s all gone, the whole world falls apart.

My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.

They don't like being seen through: as for me I'm straight I don't join their act I tear masks off.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

The hurt you carry darkens what you see.

And it is very much lamented,...
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye
That you might see your shadow.

Watching someone else totally go for it can be incredibly upsetting to the person who’s spent a lifetime building a case for why they themselves can’t

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance, — by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

You can’t go on “seeing through” things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. To “see through” all things is the same as not to see.

Oh, hello, Mr. Man
You didn't think I'd come back
You didn't think I'd show up with my army
And this ammunition on my back...I see right through you

You want freedom? Here it is: Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.