What did Mason Cooley mean by: Scholarship can find little to say about the obvious. Mason Cooley Professor · USA Copy
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mason Cooley, Dissolution, Irony, Nostalgia, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mason Cooley, Manners, Privilege, Vulnerability, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Magic lives in curves, not angles. Author, June 24, 2023January 2, 2025, Mason Cooley, Beauty, Magic, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle. Author, June 5, 2023December 25, 2024, Mason Cooley, Metaphor, Miracle, Transcendence, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings. Author, September 24, 2023January 2, 2025, Mason Cooley, Engagement, Imagination, Interpretation, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening. Author, September 27, 2023January 2, 2025, Mason Cooley, Oblivion, Time, Uncertainty, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception. Author, June 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Mason Cooley, Fate, Misfortune, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mason Cooley, Deeds, Ideology, Passion, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA
How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn’t behavioral, what the hell is it? Read explanation Charlie Munger Business person
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. Frank Zappa Musician · USA
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. Read explanation W. Somerset Maugham Playwright and novelist · United Kingdom
I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better. William Hogarth Painter · England