Charles Horton Cooley Quotes

• The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

  Charles Horton Cooley

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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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

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  Tags in Heroism, Live, Sensuality

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

  Charles Horton Cooley

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  Tags in Mind, Place

• 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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  Tags in Struggle, Social

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

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Another, Facts

• 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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  Tags in Human, Control

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

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Lives, Individual

• 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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  Tags in Nothing, Everything

• 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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

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  Tags in Social, Live

• 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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

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  Tags in Existing, Necessary

• 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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  Tags in Freedom, General

• 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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Best, Feeling

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

  Charles Horton Cooley

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  Tags in Back, Sometimes

• 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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

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  Tags in Freedom, Human, Need

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

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Means, Prudence

• 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 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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  Tags in Doing, Idea

• 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

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful

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

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

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  Tags in Seem, Insignificant

Charles Horton Cooley (35)

Birth:	17th August, 1864
Death:	7th May, 1929
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Sociologist

About

Charles Horton Cooley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was an American sociologist. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan, and he was a founding member and the eighth president of the American Sociological Association. In 1888, he returned for a Master's degree in political economics, with a minor in sociology. He began teaching economics and sociology at the University in the fall of 1892. Cooley went on to receive a PhD in 1894. His doctoral thesis was The Theory of Transportation in economics.

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