Phantoms Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Truth is a necessary phantom.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Phantoms Truth Truth is
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. — René Descartes Copy Share Image
For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on… — Leonardo da Vinci 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
Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays.… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone… — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at Phantom. "Sit,"… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
By [age] 93, I had shrunk quite a lot. My car was known as the Phantom Cadillac. People would see it whizzing by and… — George Burns Copy Share Image
There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their… — Ernest Hello Copy Share Image
Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame. — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image