More Than Human

Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them.

Love’s a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

So it was that Lone came to know himself; and like the handful of people who have done so before him he found, at this pinnacle, the rugged foot of a mountain.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic.

Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsession and reality can’t tolerate it. Something has to give; if reality goes, your fine piece of engineering is left with nothing to operate on. So it operates badly. So kick the obsession out; start functioning the way you were designed to function.

An ethic isn’t a fact you can look up. It’s a way of thinking.

Morals: They’re nothing but a coded survival instinct!

That’s fairly common. We don’t believe anything we don’t want to believe.