To cease to admire is a proof of …– Charles Horton Cooley
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
So far as discipline is concerned…– 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.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity…– Charles Horton Cooley
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied …– Charles Horton Cooley
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a …– Charles Horton Cooley
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words …– Charles Horton Cooley
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.
The bashful are always aggressive at …– Charles Horton Cooley
The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
Our individual lives cannot, generally…– Charles Horton Cooley
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Between richer and poorer classes in a free …– Charles Horton Cooley
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.
We have no higher life that is really apart from …– Charles Horton Cooley
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.