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Charles Horton Cooley Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated Dec 2023

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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 to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

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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.

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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 passes out of him.

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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

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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.

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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.

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The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

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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 are lower or less rational.

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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

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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.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

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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 existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

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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.

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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 it.

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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

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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, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

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