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

Stichwörter: religion



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

Robert A. Heinlein

Stichwörter: pain laughter



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Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

Robert A. Heinlein


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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Robert A. Heinlein

Stichwörter: morality freedom law rules



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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

Stichwörter: humor cats women



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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

Robert A. Heinlein

Stichwörter: self-esteem



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Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

Robert A. Heinlein


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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.

Robert A. Heinlein

Stichwörter: theology theologians theism



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If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Robert A. Heinlein

Stichwörter: defiance hopelessness lost-causes



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He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

Robert A. Heinlein


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