If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
Charles Horton Cooley
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More quotes by Charles Horton Cooley
- An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
- Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
- Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
- 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.
- So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.