Charles Horton Cooley

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    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 (1864–1929)

    No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)