Aphorism Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The aphorism offers a momentary sense of mastery over some confusion or unhappiness.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphorism Confusion Mastery Momentary Offers Unhappiness
The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The loftiness of understanding embraces all. It requires as much spirit to suffer the failings of others as it does to appreciate their good… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
