Charles Horton Cooley Quotes - Page 4

All Quotes Art Children Feelings Freedom Giving Imagination Life Pain Passion Purpose Reflection

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

Charles Horton Cooley

Strong, Hate, Imagination

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.159, Transaction Publishers

Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.

Charles Horton Cooley

Kindness, Animal, Top Down

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.158, Transaction Publishers