Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley

American sociologist

Lived from: 1864 - 1929

Category: History and sociology Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 17 august 1864 Died: 7 may 1929

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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.
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  • The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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  • A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
    Life and the student (1927)
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  • A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
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  • A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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  • An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
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  • 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.
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  • By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
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  • 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.
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  • Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
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  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
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  • Originality begins in our reaction to the necessary events of life, to things that come up hard against us.
    Life and the student
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  • Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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  • The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
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  • The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
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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.
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  • The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
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What are the most famous quotes from Charles Horton Cooley?

The two most famous quotes from Charles Horton Cooley are:

  • "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."
  • "The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self."

When did Charles Horton Cooley live?

Charles Horton Cooley was born in 1864 and died in the year 1929.