Charles Horton Cooley Quotes about Passion

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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

Charles Horton Cooley

Struggle, Passion, Self

Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.248, Transaction Publishers

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

Charles Horton Cooley

Sex, Passion, Power

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.203, Transaction Publishers

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.

Charles Horton Cooley

Passion, Ambition, Self

Charles Horton Cooley (1964). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.256, Transaction Publishers