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Life Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
- The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
- There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle