Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Charles Horton Cooley on art
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. Charles Horton Cooley on failure
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. Charles Horton Cooley on freedom
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. Charles Horton Cooley on freedom
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. Charles Horton Cooley on freedom
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. Charles Horton Cooley on government
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. Charles Horton Cooley on imagination
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Charles Horton Cooley on society
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. Charles Horton Cooley on society
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. Charles Horton Cooley on travel