Edmund Cooper: Trending quotes

“What is god but an extension of the ego - a sort of megalomania by proxy?”

“The journey is what matters.”

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

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

“The mad can make their own laws.”

“Behind the apparent unreason there is reason.”

“Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.”

“A man must either fall or rise in adversity.”

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

“Destiny knows no favorites.”

“It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.”

“It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.”

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

“The real struggle is between order and anarchy.”

“Only ideals are dangerous.”

“He who expects little is rarely disappointed.”

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

“It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.”

“Life itself has become ludicrous.”