Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 27

• Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

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  Running, Philosophy, Common Sense

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

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  Ideas, Literature, World

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• Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

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  Running, Reputation, Affair

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• Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

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  Birthday, Passion, Age Love

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• Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

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  Ideas, Literature, May

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• The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

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  Horse, Youth, Remember

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• The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

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  Men, Talking, Feelings

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• The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

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  Sage, Literature, Enlightened

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

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  Thinking, Specialists, Universe

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• Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

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  New York, Paris, Drawing

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• Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

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  Dream, Desire, Dread

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• Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

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  Dream, Desire, Analysis

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• To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

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  Doe, Fool, Misfortunes

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• The educated can listen impassively to almost anything.

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  Education, Educated

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• The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.

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  Opinion, Youth, Young

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• My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

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  Friends, Young Friends, Youth

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• The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

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  People, Today, Youth

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• The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.

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  Youth, Shame, Stolen

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• In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

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  Art, Age, Antiques

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• The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.

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  Fun, Broken, Age

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• Age must give way to youth, no doubt. But not yet, not yet.

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  Giving, Doubt, Age

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• A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

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  Occupation, Wells, Paid

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• The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.

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  Soul, Appetite, Stills

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• Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

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  Opportunity, Self, Criticism

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• Malevolence is shameful but satisfying.

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  Evil, Malevolence, Shameful

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