Quotes from book
Seed of Light

Name: Seed of Light
Author: Edmund Cooper

Edmund Cooper

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

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

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

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“He who expects little is rarely disappointed.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

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

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“All living things sustain each other. All living things depend upon death not as an end, an absolute completion, but as a beginning of a new rhythm, a way of fulfillment in passing on the restless force of life.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“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.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“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.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

“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.”

Edmund Cooper book Seed of Light

Seed of Light (1959)

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