Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 14

• Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

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  Men, Feelings, Nervous

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• Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

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  Islands, People, Three

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• To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

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  Grieving, Gains, Reputation

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• 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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• Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

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  Laughter, Alarms, Sound

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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 real secrets are not the ones I tell.

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  Real, Secret

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• It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

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  Literature, Interpreting, Observing

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• A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

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  Stupid, Literature, Blunt

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• Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

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  Reality, Paper, Proof

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• Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

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  Retirement, Return, Youth

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• Many try to force the past to change.

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  Change, Past, Trying

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• Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.

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  Weed, Flower, Differences

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• I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

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  Self, Borders, Easy

  "City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

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• Life is what it makes you.

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  Life, Life Is

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• Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

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  Madness, Suspicion

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• The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

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  Burning, Limits, Building

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