American - Sociologist | 1866 - 1928
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.
Charles Horton Cooley
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Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
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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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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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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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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.
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