Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Shapes, Emotion, Foolish

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

• Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Art, Philosophical, Sunset

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.93, Penguin

• Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gratitude, Real, Selfishness

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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