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Stranger in a Strange Land QUOTES

Stranger in a Strange Land QUOTES

1 " Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

2 " Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

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

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

4 " A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

5 " But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

6 " Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

7 " Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

8 " The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

9 " Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

10 " Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

11 " It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

12 " Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

13 " No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

14 " People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

15 " The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

16 " But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

17 " Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

18 " Secrecy begets tyranny. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

19 " I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land

20 " He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land