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Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

Charles Horton Cooley quotes

American Sociologist

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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley quote: "The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of..."
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. Charles Horton Cooley
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley quote: "The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of..."
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley quote: "There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by..."
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. Charles Horton Cooley
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. Charles Horton Cooley
Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. Charles Horton Cooley
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley quote: "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley quote: "One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and..."
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley quote: "Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back..."
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. Charles Horton Cooley
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. Charles Horton Cooley
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley quote: "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless..."
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Charles Horton Cooley
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. Charles Horton Cooley

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