Charles Cooley Quote

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.


Charles Horton Cooley, in Structure and Agency in Everyday Life: An Introduction to Social Psychology, (1 January 2003), p. 53


As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.