You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
The best way to know any future is to cause one.
A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office worker. They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine. They are the machine itself.
See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see
If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.
We've got some new ways to make slaves here.
Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of our foreheads.
The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.
The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.
The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.
Are you making life or is life making you?
No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.
The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN.
The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.
Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest.
What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.
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