Inspiring Quotes by Mason Cooley - Page 3

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"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval"

"Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty"

"An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another"

"Fears and lies intensify consciousness"

"Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem"

"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is"

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie"

"After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success"

"Affection reproaches, but does not denounce"

"Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference"

"The wisdom of age: don't stop walking"

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

"Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted"

"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine"

"Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment"

"Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy"

"Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation"

"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments"

"Never ask a bore a question"

"Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures"

"I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am"

"Few artists can afford artistic temperament"

"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed"

"Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity"

"Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time"

"Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end"

"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining"

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

"A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude"

"'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'"

"Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them"

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

"Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day"

"Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it"

"Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?"

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying"

"Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better"

"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word"

"Even cats grow lonely and anxious"

"Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves"

"Art seduces, but does not exploit"

"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation"

"A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings"

"The time I kill is killing me"

"We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled"

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners"

"The body has a mind of its own"

"The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's"

"The real secrets are not the ones I tell"

"Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future"

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