(0)Remind me to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that 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. The title is ‘Gossip Unlimited’ — no, make that ‘Gossip Gone Wild.’
Jubal Harshaw in „Stranger in a strange land“
from Robert A. Heinlein
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(0)A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws. You are almost entirely free of this prevalent evil.
Jubal Harshaw in „Stranger in a strange land“
from Robert A. Heinlein
(0)Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Jubal Harshaw in „Stranger in a strange land“
from Robert A. Heinlein
(0)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.
Jubal Harshaw in „Stranger in a strange land“
from Robert A. Heinlein
(0)Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.
„Moon is a harsh mistress“
from Robert A. Heinlein
(0)I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
„Moon is a harsh mistress“
From Robert A. Heinlein
(0)Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
(0)People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy half a slug who must tighten his belt.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
(0)Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate – and quickly.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
(0)Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as “empty,” “meaningless,” or “dishonest,” and scorn to use them. No matter how “pure” their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (Intermission)
from Robert A. Heinlein
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