Robert A. Heinlein Quotes - Page 3

Remind me," Jubal said to her, "to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to tthe unecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the toubles and sins of five billion strangers. The title is 'Gossip Unlimited' - no, make that 'Gossip Gone Wild.'

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.

Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce - render emotional - his audience, each time.

Abstract design is all right - for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human.

Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times

A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future.

History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion - ie., none to speak of

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.