Charles Horton Cooley Quotes about Reflection

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The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

Charles Horton Cooley

Moving, Pride, Reflection

Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

Charles Horton Cooley

Eye, Reflection, Water

Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.231, Routledge

In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

Charles Horton Cooley

Reflection, Self, Suffering

Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.247, Transaction Publishers