Charles Horton Cooley Quotes about Life

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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.

Life, Travel, Mean

Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.95, University of Chicago Press

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

Life, Power, Inspire

Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

Life, Theatre, Alarms

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.250, Transaction Publishers