# More Than Human

- Author: [Theodore Sturgeon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon.md)
- Quotes: 12
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/more-than-human

## Quotes

> There’s this about a farm: when the market’s good there’s money, and when it’s bad there’s food.

p. 34

> The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and … and earns. It’s a thing he can’t have when he’s very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it’s truly part of him as long as he lives.

p. 184

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

p. 181

> Here, too, was the guide, the beacon, for such times as humanity might be in danger; here was the Guardian of Whom all humans knew — not an exterior force, nor an awesome Watcher in the sky, but a laughing thing with a human heart and a reverence for its human origins, smelling of sweat and new-turned earth rather than suffused with the pale odor of sanctity.

p. 186

> 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.

p. 169

> 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.

p. 60

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

p. 97

> 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.

p. 146

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

p. 183

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

p. 175

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

p. 94

> The idiot heard the sounds, but they had no meaning for him. He lived inside somewhere, apart, and the little link between word and significance hung broken.

p. 1