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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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Moving, Pride, Reflection

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

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• Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.

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  Thinking, Self, Games

  "Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters". Book by Charles Cooley, p. 200, 1927.

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• The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  People, Imagination, Facts

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.22, Transaction Publishers

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• Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Thinking, Mind, Action

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• No hay forma de penetrar en la superficie de la vida si no es atacándola seriamente en un punto concreto.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Way, Attacking, Surface

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.150, Transaction Publishers

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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.

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  Eye, Reflection, Water

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

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• Si la juventud es el periodo de adoración de los héroes, también es cierto que la adoración de los héroes, más que ninguna otra cosa, quizás, nos da la sensación de juventud. Admirar, expandirse, olvidar la rutina, tener una sensación de novedad, vida y esperanza, es sentirse joven en cualquier momento de la vida.

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  Hero, Self, Giving

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

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• Un artista no puede fracasar; es un éxito serlo.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Failure, Creative

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• To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Aggravation, Deterioration, Admiration

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.320, Transaction Publishers

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• Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

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  Dark, Army, Decision

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• Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Individuality, Bread

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Self, Ideas, Mind

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

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• The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Issues, Mind, Obscurity

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Anger, Order

  Charles Horton Cooley (2015). “Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters”, p.61, Transaction Publishers

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• Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Life And Love, Fall, Failure

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• Alejarse del entorno laboral es, en cierto sentido, alejarse de uno mismo; y ésta suele ser la principal ventaja de los viajes y los cambios.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Travel, Vacation, Carpe Diem

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Sports, Hero, Past

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

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• No importa lo que haga un hombre, no está plenamente cuerdo ni es humano a menos que haya en él un espíritu de libertad, un alma no confinada por un propósito y más grande que el mundo practicable.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Freedom, Men, Soul

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.188, Transaction Publishers

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• We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

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  Acting, Firsts, Action

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Struggle, Passion, Self

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

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• Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Gobierno, Iglesia, Necesidades

  Charles Horton Cooley (1922). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Men, Individuality, Doe

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  People, Personality, Idiot

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.97, Transaction Publishers

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• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Men, Presence Of Mind

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Suicide, Art, Writing

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