Robert A. Heinlein Quote #1
- I'm so busy doing what I must do that I don't have time for what I ought to do... and I never get a chance to do what I want to do!
- Son, that's universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow.Robert A. Heinlein Quote #2
...I have this one nasty habit. Makes me hard to live with. I write...
...writing is antisocial. It's as solitary as masturbation. Disturb a writer when he is in the throes of creation and he is likely to turn and bite right to the bone... and not even know that he's doing it. As writers' wives and husbands often learn to their horror...
...there is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured. In a household with more than one person, of which one is a writer, the only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private, and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. Because, if you disturb the patient at such times, he may break into tears or become violent. Or he may not hear you at all... and, if you shake him at this stage, he bites...Robert A. Heinlein Quote #3
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #4
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #5
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #6
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #7
A hero must hero.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #8
A paradox may be paradoctored.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #9
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #10
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #11
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #12
Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #13
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #14
All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #15
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #16
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #17
Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #18
Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #19
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, portray 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.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #20
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 Quote #21
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #22
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #23
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #24
As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #25
Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #26
Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #27
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Robert A. Heinlein Quote #28
Ben, why should anybody want that much power?
Why does a moth fly toward light?Robert A. Heinlein Quote #29
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 Quote #30
But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.
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