Quote

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Needs
Prophecy
Flexibility
Fulfilled
Lots

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.
Mason Cooley
Image
I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.
Mason Cooley
Image
In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
Mason Cooley
Image
Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.
Mason Cooley
Image
Disillusionment is not truth.
Mason Cooley
Image
Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
Mason Cooley
Image
Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.
Mason Cooley
Image
In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
Mason Cooley
Image
Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
Mason Cooley
Image
I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.
Mason Cooley
Image
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Mason Cooley
Image
I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.
Mason Cooley
Image
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
Mason Cooley
Image
A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.
Mason Cooley
Image
Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
Mason Cooley
Image
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.
Mason Cooley
Image
Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.
Mason Cooley
Image
Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Mason Cooley
Image
Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?
Mason Cooley
Image
Under attack, sentiments harden into dogma.
Mason Cooley