Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
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The bashful are always aggressive at heart.Charles Horton Cooley
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Charles Horton Cooley
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.
Charles Horton Cooley
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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
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.
Charles Horton Cooley
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