Charles Horton Cooley
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.
—Charles Horton Cooley, Human Nature and the Social Order
Posted on May 14, 2003 at 11:01 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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 hardly accepted.
—Charles Horton Cooley, Human Nature and the Social Order
Posted on March 29, 2001 at 8:20 AM
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