Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

Caring

Cat

Cooking

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Book

Past

Reading

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.

Eye

Leader

Mind

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Art

Creative

Failure

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

Bread

Individuality

Men

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Causes

Freedom

Increase

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Failure

Fall

Life And Love

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

Development

Opportunity

Progressive

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.

Doe

Ego

Thinking

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.

Feelings

Giving

Self

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Acting

Action

Admiration

Aggravation

Ambition

Anger

Animal

Art

Believe

Blow

Book

Bread

Caring

Cat

Causes

Cells

Children

Communication

Cooking

Creative

Deterioration

Development

Discipline

Doe

Doubt

Ego

Eye

Failure

Fall

Feelings

Firsts

Freedom

Games

Giving

Hate

Hero

Home

Hospitality

Ideas

Idiot

Imagination

Imposing

Increase

Individuality

Kindness

Leader

Life

Life And Love

Loss

Lying

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Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

Charles Horton Cooley

A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.

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.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Freedom is the opportunity for right development, for development in accordance with the progressive ideal of life that we have in conscience.

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.

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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