Charles Horton Cooley

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

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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. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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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. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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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. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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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. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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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

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

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