Every general increase of freedom is acc... | Charles Horton Cooley

Causes Freedom

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

- Charles Horton Cooley

Other quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

Discipline Freedom

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.

- Charles Horton Cooley

Sense Change

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

- Charles Horton Cooley

Mind Action Thinking

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

- Charles Horton Cooley

Virtue

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

- Charles Horton Cooley

Heroes Past

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

Work Mind

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

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