Best Charles Horton Cooley Quotes
- To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. Admiration
- One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed… Aberration
- Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. Compromise
- Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago? Aspect
- A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction… Accompanies
- I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it… Absurdity
- The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… Absurd
- The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as… Cave
- One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human… Able
- In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a… Admire
- It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those… Associate
- It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in… Common
- An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Art
- Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Anger
- One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Criticism
- A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. Genius
- Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as… Church
- The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. Facts
- 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… Aspiration
- Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. Accompanied
- A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order,… Avail
- The bashful are always aggressive at heart. Aggressive
- As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see… Assurance
- Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. Accompanied
- 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… Dull