Edmund Cooper Quotes

Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.

Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.

Courage has many faces.

There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.

For death is only a loss of radiance , and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.

I believe our only hope of immortality lies in our actions, in what we do to and for others, and in our children.

There is no other god but life. Life is the only holy thing. And when that goes that is the death of God.

But in adversity, intelligence alone cannot sustain hope. Ultimately, hope can be sustained only by finding purpose in adversity, by imposing a pattern on the fortuitous disasters of existence. Human beings, if force to it, will compromise their intelligence to preserve their hope.

Only the absurd could have any bearing on reality.

Cultures and societies consumed each other, as well as animals and men.

Mankind has never been renowned for accepting logical solutions to its most serious problems. As a rule, the degre of logicality of solutions seemed to vary inversely with the urgency or seriousness of the problems.

But it is better to be destroyed on strange frontiers than to live in a prison of ignorance and fear.

All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse.

Even you must appreciate that to destroy the personnality while preserving the body is simply another kind of death.

Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.