There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The mind is not a hermit’s cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail… Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
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. Charles Horton Cooley Read Quote
