# Quote — Edmund Cooper, Seed of Light

> 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.

- Author: [Edmund Cooper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper.md)
- Book: [Seed of Light](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/seed-of-light.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/seed-of-light/for-mankind-may

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> He who expects little is rarely disappointed.

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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.

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> 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.

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