Mason Cooley
Mason Cooley
Mason Cooleywas an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
may facts arguing
Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.
sacred reason sacred-texts
Sacred texts always offend reason.
smell sight intuition
Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.
elderly dinner-guests may
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.
broken break-out reason
Reason cannot break out of its own loop.
indifference ideology hostility
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference.
methodology ideology
Methodology is applied ideology.
ignorance invincible infallibility
Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.
funny laughing would-be
A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
art sex drug
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.
stoicism behavior ifs
What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
tolerance contempt placid
Tolerance is a placid contempt.
law poverty wealth
Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
towns wealth affluent
I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.