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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley
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Charles Horton Cooley
Age: 64 †
Born: 1864
Born: August 17
Died: 1929
Died: May 27
Economist
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Ann Arbor
Michigan
Charles Horton Cooley
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
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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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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
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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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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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A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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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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If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
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Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.
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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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The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
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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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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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When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
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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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The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.
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The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
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