1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

To be a social success, do not act pathetic, arrogant, or bored. Do not discuss your unhappy childhood, your visit to the dentist,the shortcomings of your cleaning woman, the state of your bowels, or your spouse's bad habits. You will be thought a paragon (or perhaps a monster) of good behavior.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.

Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.