Charles Horton Cooley Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.”

“The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.”

“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”

“There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.”

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

“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.”

“There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.”

“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.”

“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.”

“Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.”