The Fifth Science

In all things, across all avenues, a choice must be made: whether to follow love, truth, or power. That choice will consume the chooser. If he follows only love then his wellbeing will be constantly at the mercy of another, though his highs will be sublime.

derelict

Most humans were not malicious, only drastically misguided and desperate in their loneliness.

Humans must be the only animals who build zoos for themselves.

They learned at some point that there was an eccentric core to their personality and that it was possible no one else shared their own brand of eccentricity. They put up screens around that core to shield from embarrassment and shame.

A formalist as he described it, believing that a mind is a pattern of information rather than a solid thing enclosed within the brain.

dirge

If he should follow power though, not only will he come to know a desperate and revolting loneliness, but he will also never experience even a drop of satisfaction in anything.

Inaction is the primary refuge of those who prefer their own constructed realities to the beautiful chaos of the real world.