Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?
Mason Cooley
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
True
Littles
Little
Time
Invention
False
Coming
Language
More quotes by Mason Cooley
An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.
Mason Cooley
Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.
Mason Cooley
A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.
Mason Cooley
You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
Mason Cooley
I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.
Mason Cooley
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
Mason Cooley
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
Mason Cooley
An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
Mason Cooley
Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.
Mason Cooley
Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.
Mason Cooley
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
Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
Mason Cooley
Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
Mason Cooley
Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.
Mason Cooley
I am only interested in money because everyone else is.
Mason Cooley
Self-deception is nature hypocrisy is art.
Mason Cooley
Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.
Mason Cooley
One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.
Mason Cooley
The etiquette of romantic love is as elaborate as that surrounding the Emperor of China.
Mason Cooley
Rebuttals never alter desire.
Mason Cooley
