Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

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• Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
• The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to…
• 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…
• No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined…
• A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the…
• We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
• So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that…
• We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity…
• 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…
• Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
• Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.…
• By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the…
• When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue…
• The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that…
• There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray…
• Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the…
• A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.
• Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my…
• A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted;…
• The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

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