Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Thinking, Logic
Magic lives in curves, not angles.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Magic
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist’s office would be full of luminous ideas.
—Mason Cooley
Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Apathy
Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Logic
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
—Mason Cooley
Indifference creates an artificial peace.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Apathy
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Thinking
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Reality
Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Enjoyment, One liners
Listening to people keeps them entertained.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Listening
Opportunity knocks, but doesn’t always answer to its name.
—Mason Cooley
Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
—Mason Cooley
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Tourism, Travel
Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved
—Mason Cooley
Arrogance frowns; pride smiles.
—Mason Cooley
Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Thinking
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Compassion
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Sharing
At the end of every diet, he path curves back to the trough.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Diet
Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
—Mason Cooley
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: The Past
I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Eating
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
—Mason Cooley
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
—Mason Cooley
Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Procrastination
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Cynicism
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Perspective
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
—Mason Cooley
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Faith
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
—Mason Cooley
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.
—Mason Cooley
Topics: Unemployment