Quotes by Mason Cooley

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Never ask a bore a question.

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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

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When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

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Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

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First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

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Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

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Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

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Folly always knows the answer.

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General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

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Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

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If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

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Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

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Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

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Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

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Never try to leap from a standstill.

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Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.

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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

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Self-reform is the only kind that works.

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Malice is always authentic and sincere.

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Author Bio

  • NameMason Cooley
  • DescriptionAmerican academic
  • Born1927
  • DiedJuly 25, 2002