Edmund Cooper: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Men who are afraid live longer.”

“When one flowers dies, another is born.”

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

“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.”

“On earth there are frontiers, in the sky there are none.”

“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.”

“All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse.”

“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.”

“Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.”

“In a fantastic world, the fantastic had become merely ordinary.”

“Only the absurd could have any bearing on reality.”

“But then history was made by fools.”

“And yet to be without hope is almost to be without sanity.”

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

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

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

“And he who loves last loves loudest.”

“How does one objectively define madness?”

“The colour of the skin is less important than the spirit wich moves it.”