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The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

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Strong joy and grief depend upon the treatment this rudimentary social self receives.

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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.

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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

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To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

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

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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

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Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?

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The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

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It is clear that one who attempts to study precisely things that are changing must have a great deal to do with measures of change.

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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.

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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

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A separate individual is an abstraction unknown to experience, and so likewise is society when regarded as something apart from individuals.

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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.

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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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The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection upon another's mind.

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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

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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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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized cooperation.

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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.

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Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.

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There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

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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.

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The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

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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.

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When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.

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Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.

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