Edmund Cooper quotes - page 2

Only ideals are dangerous. (Edmund Cooper)
He who expects little is rarely disappointed. View quote
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Men who are afraid live longer. View quote
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There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason. View quote
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On earth there are frontiers, in the sky there are none. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In a fantastic world, the fantastic had become merely ordinary. View quote
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But then history was made by fools. View quote
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I am rebelling against imprisonment, I am rebelling against tyranny of the mind, I am rebelling against a collection of machines with interchangeable faces. Above all, I am rebelling against my own ignorance and your deliberate deception. View quote
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Even you must appreciate that to destroy the personnality while preserving the body is simply another kind of death. (Edmund Cooper)
There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear. View quote
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I believe our only hope of immortality lies in our actions, in what we do to and for others, and in our children. View quote
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There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history. View quote
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Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look. View quote
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To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty. View quote
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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. View quote
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But it may be that there is happiness in the very things we rejected - in work and responsibility. In the rearing of children and in the challenge of permanent love. View quote
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There is no acceptable true image. View quote
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Courage has many faces. View quote
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What is god but an extension of the ego - a sort of megalomania by proxy? (Edmund Cooper)
In some way the material universe appears to be passing away like a tale that is told, dissolving into nothingness like a vision. View quote
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Behind the apparent unreason there is reason. View quote
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Destiny knows no favorites. View quote
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It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively. View quote
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