# Quote — Edmund Cooper, Seed of Light

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

- 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/it-is-not

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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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/seed-of-light/but-in-adversity.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmund-cooper/seed-of-light/all-living-things.md)