Quotes by Cooley, Charles Horton

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in >>

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of >>

Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have >>

Quotations about Egotism

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred >>

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom >>

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility >>

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

Cooley, Charles Horton