Mason Cooley Quotes
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered... view
By: Mason Cooley
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out... view
By: Mason Cooley
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera... view
By: Mason Cooley
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure... view
By: Mason Cooley
Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust... view
By: Mason Cooley
Self-reform is the only kind that works... view
By: Mason Cooley
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back... view
By: Mason Cooley
Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen... view
By: Mason Cooley
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind... view
By: Mason Cooley
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money... view
By: Mason Cooley
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future... view
By: Mason Cooley
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul... view
By: Mason Cooley
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's... view
By: Mason Cooley
The beloved is the ultimate fetish... view
By: Mason Cooley
The body has a mind of its own... view
By: Mason Cooley
Romantics consider common sense vulgar... view
By: Mason Cooley
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort... view
By: Mason Cooley
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over... view
By: Mason Cooley
The gods are watching, but idly, yawning... view
By: Mason Cooley
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker... view
By: Mason Cooley
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past... view
By: Mason Cooley
Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person... view
By: Mason Cooley
Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them... view
By: Mason Cooley
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends... view
By: Mason Cooley
Old and young disbelieve one another's truths... view
By: Mason Cooley
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love... view
By: Mason Cooley
Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name... view
By: Mason Cooley
Orgasm: the genitals sneezing... view
By: Mason Cooley
Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine... view
By: Mason Cooley
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters... view
By: Mason Cooley
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art... view
By: Mason Cooley
Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted... view
By: Mason Cooley
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run... view
By: Mason Cooley
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm... view
By: Mason Cooley
Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting... view
By: Mason Cooley
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder... view
By: Mason Cooley
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed... view
By: Mason Cooley
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort... view
By: Mason Cooley
The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth... view
By: Mason Cooley
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments... view
By: Mason Cooley
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts... view
By: Mason Cooley
Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs... view
By: Mason Cooley
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