Best quotes by Charles Horton Cooley on Life

Checkout quotes by Charles Horton Cooley on Life

• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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.

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

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

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

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