1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

Listen to what people say about themselves; they will tell you everything you need to know.

Don't tell me it's raining when you're peeing on me!