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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Essential Happiness Love

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Computers Humor Sex Technology Technophobes Wit

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.

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Robert A. Heinlein Jealousy Love

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Benediction Blessing Life Love

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Art Life Old Wisdom Youth

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

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Robert A. Heinlein Critics Excellence Inspirational Life Philosophy Truth Wisdom

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

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Robert A. Heinlein Drinking Inspirational

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Cats Humor Women

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

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Robert A. Heinlein Humor True

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Debate Faith Philosophy Science Scientific Method

Women talk when they want to. Or don't.

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Robert A. Heinlein Humor Truth

If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as worship.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Agnosticism God Religion Worship

That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies, I just work here.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Crime God Priests Religion Stranger In A Strange Land

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Wisdom

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Piety Religion Understanding Wisdom Zealotry

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Goodness Wisdom

Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Wisdom

Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Wisdom

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Death

Death isn't funny. Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Death

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Afterlife Faith Spiritual

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Faith

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Faith Religion

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Arrogance Art Clarity Communication Writing

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Cult Danger Law Organized Religion Power Religion Sect Separation Of Church And State

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Religion

No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Psychology Religion

People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Religion

The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Religion

The country and culture commonly known as America had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein America Religion

But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Credentials Education

The Mother Thing makes our world.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Discipleship Education Maturation Parenthood Perspective

More depended on the student than on the school.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Curiosity Education Maturation Openness

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Application Education Experiments

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Courage Fear Folly

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible, money is a bugaboo of small minds.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Engineering Money Motivation

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Application Curiosity Integration Motivation Openness Teaching

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Discipleship Friendship Internet News Social Networking

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein Choice Freedom Peace War

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein History Violence War
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