Quote #15
Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.
More from Mason Cooley
- The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.
- Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
- Living alone is good for privacy, bad for full-scale cooking and moving heavy furniture.
- Many try to force the past to change.
- Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
- Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.
- Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.
- Listening to people keeps them entertained.