Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 14

• Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

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  Remember, Forget

  "City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

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• The older we become, the more certain our future.

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  Destiny, Aging, Certain

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• After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

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  Truth, Vanity, May

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• Truth is a necessary phantom.

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  Truth, Phantoms, Truth Is

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• Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

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  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

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  Heart, Mind, Way

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• Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.

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  Work, Cutting, Folly

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• I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

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  Imagination, Imagine, I Can

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• The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

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  Sorrow, Deceit, Contradiction

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• Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

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  Laughter, Alarms, Sound

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• A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

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  Seduction, Modesty, Modest

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• Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

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  Giving, Excess, Pleasure

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• Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

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  Time, Making Love, Ruins

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• I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

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  Care, Fairness, Open Minded

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• Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

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  Flags, Emblems, Snail

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• Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

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  Nice, Hobbies, Literature

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• Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

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  Greed, Lust, Literature

  "City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

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• There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

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  Reading, Writing, Thinking

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• Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

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  Children, Optimism, Century

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• When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

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  Heart, Desire, Trying

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

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  Inspirational, Compassion, Caregivers

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• Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

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  Confusion, Understanding, Path

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• The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

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  Lying

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• I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

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  Worry, Ordinary, Watches

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• The public is a hibernating bear, hard to awaken and fond of honey.

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  Honey, Bears, Hard

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