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| Charles Horton Cooley
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often,
perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it
helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago? It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to
associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those
who consume much less are a reproach.One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse. The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self. To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture. 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. 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. 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. |
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