Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooleywas an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan, and he was a founding member and the eighth president of the American Sociological Association. He is perhaps best known for his concept of the looking glass self, which is the concept that a person's self grows out of society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSociologist
CountryUnited States of America
people personality idiot
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.
hero self giving
If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.
ambition passion self
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.
life travel mean
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.
powerful trouble ifs
To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
art failure creative
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
way surface attacking
There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
struggle passion self
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
self giving feelings
If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
dark army decision
Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
people imagination facts
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
issues mind obscurity
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
travel vacation self
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.
retirement mean successful
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.