Mason Cooley Quotes

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.

Freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

We get so intellectual that we forget that we're physical creatures.

The physical and the emotional are really connected. Although we know that, you kind of forget it.

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

It's difficult when you want it all.

It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Comfort and growth cannot coexist.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

A sound mind in a sound body.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

If you are able to see the interrelatedness of mind and body, sensitivity towards your body becomes much sharper. Therefore, maintaining of good health also becomes easier.

There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.

In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.

There's a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what's wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.

If the mind is not healthy, you'll never get a sound body.

People get caught up in the idea that health is just what you look like and what you eat, but your health is physical, emotional and mental. Who's to say eating that bowl of ice cream after training isn't going to help me psychologically and emotionally?

We all live with contradictions.

If you want to have a balance in life, you have to have the balance of the three elements: mind, body, and soul. So when you reach that balance, you feel good about yourself.

If I ever had to choose between having a good mind and good health with having big success, then there's no contest: I'd put my health first every time.