Edmund Cooper Zitate

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”