Best Charles Horton Cooley Sayings
- The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. Diaries
- The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. Assert
- There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. Any
- There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. Attacking
- 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… Antagonism
- 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… Always Imagine
- 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… Apart
- 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… Advantage
- If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth.… Admire
- 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,… Co
- 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