Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction Author

Philosophical

“Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.”

Conflict Selfishness Moral Behavior

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Robert A. Heinlein

Science Fiction Author

Grateful

“In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.”

Chance Breakfast Evaluation

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Love

“Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.”

Beautiful Sex Beauty

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Philosophical

“If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.”

Men Cat

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Hopeful

“It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.”

Ambition Disappointment

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Philosophical

“To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.”

World Real History

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Optimistic

“Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.”

Art Goal Victory

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Funny

“Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.”

Firsts Crime Waking

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Philosophical

“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.”

Sin Injustice Tribes

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Philosophical

“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”

Instinct Mistress Forbidden

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Creative

“The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.”

Ideas Hardest Niche

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Courageous

“When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.”

Political Exercise Violence

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