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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Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.Charles Horton Cooley
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Charles Horton Cooley
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.
Charles Horton Cooley
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.
Charles Horton Cooley
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other.
Charles Horton Cooley
As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
Charles Horton Cooley
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