Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 8

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• Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

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  Struggle, Race, Golden

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• You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Trust, Skeptical

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.330, Penguin

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• No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

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  Heart, Age, Eighteen

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• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

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  Philosophy, Lunch, Political

  The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ch. 11 (1966).

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• Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Pay

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• ...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose.

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  Gun, Self, Law

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• On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.

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  Sex, Stupid, Two

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

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• Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.

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  Life, Minutes

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.331, Penguin

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• I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.

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  Brave, Done

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.203, Macmillan

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• I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

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  Laughing, Able, Complicated

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 442), 1987.

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• Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

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  Animal, Men, Wisest Man

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.277, Macmillan

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• Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

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  Sight, Giving, Perspective

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

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  Stupid, Results, Malice

  "Logic of Empire" (1941).

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• If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Talking, Prove It, Prove

  ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1961). “STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND”

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• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loyalty, Fall, Two

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

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  Tribes, Injustice, Sin

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.144, Macmillan

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• No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

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  Intelligent, Men, Law

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

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• The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.

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  Mind, Swallowing, Action

  "Revolt in 2100" by Robert A. Heinlein, "Concerning Stories Never Written: Postscript", 1953.

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• Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group
  without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

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  Men, Groups, Halos

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

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  Civilization, Atheism, Polite

  Robert A. Heinlein (1960). “Beyond This Horizon”, Roc

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• To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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  Learning, Libertarian, Young

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

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  Voting, Historical, Majority

  Time Enough for Love "Second Intermission" (1973)

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• The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Thinking, Self

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• Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

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  Atheist, Cat, Dark

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.

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  People, Mind, Pay

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Waldo & Magic, Inc.”, p.132, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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