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Quotes by Robert Anson Heinlein

  • One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.
  • To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
  • Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
  • Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
  • 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.
  • The stars incline, but do not impel.
  • A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
  • A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
  • Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.