#ali

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

— Charles Horton Cooley

#hermit #hospitality #intercourse #mind #place

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. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow

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

#control #effective #effective way #energy #fact

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 without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#built #higher #idiot #imagining #life

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#give #name #our #reality

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#mistakes #only #originality #universal

Documents create a paper reality we call proof. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#create #documents #paper #proof #reality

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#community #effort #endeavoring #flesh #fortunately

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction. ↗

— John Cory

#destruction #distance #judging #morality #only

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#end #first #how #life #person