Author: Charles Horton Cooley

Quotes

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

- Charles Horton Cooley

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

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

- Charles Horton Cooley

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

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

- Charles Horton Cooley

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

- Charles Horton Cooley

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

- Charles Horton Cooley

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

- Charles Horton Cooley

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.

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.

- Charles Horton Cooley

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

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

- Charles Horton Cooley

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

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

- Charles Horton Cooley

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