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Quotes from Seed of Light — Edmund Cooper

1926–1982 England

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

Seed of Light (1959)

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

Seed of Light (1959)

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

Seed of Light (1959)

All fanaticism springs from the religious impulse.

Seed of Light (1959)

He who expects little is rarely disappointed.

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.

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.

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.

Seed of Light (1959)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Cooper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.