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Beschreibung | Mason Cooley (1927 - 25. Juli 2002) war ein amerikanischer Aphoristiker, der für seine witzigen Aphorismen bekannt war. Einer dieser Aphorismen, die Cooley entwickelte, war "Die Zeit, die ich töte, tötet mich". Er war emeritierter Professor für Französisch, Sprache und Weltliteratur am College of Staten Island. Außerdem war er von 1959 bis 1967 Assistenzprofessor für Englisch an der Columbia University und von 1980 bis 1988 außerordentlicher Professor. Er erhielt seinen B.A. von der San Diego State University und seinen Ph.D. von Oxford. Wikiquote hat Zitate im Zusammenhang mit Mason Cooley.
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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
Money: power at its most liquid.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
While there's life, there's fear.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Art seduces, but does not exploit.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
The passion for money is never fickle.
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
