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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.
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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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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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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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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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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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
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Each man must have his I it is more necessary to him than bread.
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It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
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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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The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
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When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.
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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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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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The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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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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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
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