Charles Horton Cooley
American sociologist
Lived from: 1864 - 1929
Category: History and sociology Country: 
United States
Born: 17 august 1864 Died: 7 may 1929
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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.
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.
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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.
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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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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 nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.
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To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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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.
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To live in the present only is as unnatural as to live in solitude.
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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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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.
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''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
― Charles Horton Cooley
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