Edmund Cooper Quotes

Life itself has become ludicrous.

Thus, ultimately, there never could be an absolute end; just as there never could have been an absolute beginning. There could only be a continuous unfolding.

How does one objectively define madness ?

The real struggle is between order and anarchy.

There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear.

There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.

Without mankind machines are nothing.

In some way the material universe appears to be passing away like a tale that is told, dissolving into nothingness like a vision.

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 ideals are dangerous.

A man must either fall or rise in adversity.

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

For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes.

When one flowers dies, another is born.

The mad can make their own laws.