The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer … - Charles Horton Cooley
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer …
- Charles Horton Cooley
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse. - Charles Horton Cooley
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, or… - Charles Horton Cooley
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, or…
The bashful are always aggressive at heart. - Charles Horton Cooley
The bashful are always aggressive at heart.
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies. - Charles Horton Cooley
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one,… - Charles Horton Cooley
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one,…
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… - Charles Horton Cooley
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…
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. - Charles Horton Cooley
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling tha… - Charles Horton Cooley
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling tha…
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