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.
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Charles Horton Cooley
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About Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Horton Cooley was an American sociologist. He was the son of Michigan Supreme Court Judge Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan.
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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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…
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,…
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the 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.
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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,…
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.