Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley

American sociologist

Alive from: 1864-1929

Category: History and sociology | CountryAmerica

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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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  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 a larger conception of what constitutes the self.

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  A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
  Source: Life and the student (1927)

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  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 eye and fascinate the mind.

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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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  An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

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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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  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 keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

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

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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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  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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  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 by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

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  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 tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.

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  Originality begins in our reaction to the necessary events of life, to things that come up hard against us.
  Source: Life and the student