Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINI don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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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.
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They didn’t want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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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.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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