Quotes by Cooley, Charles Horton

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. >>

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

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guidi >>

Quotations about Ideals and Idealism

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they >>

The actual well seen is ideal. >>

Ideals are the worlds masters. >>

The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.

Cooley, Charles Horton