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. HeinleinTag: religion
I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.
Robert A. HeinleinNothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
Robert A. HeinleinI 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. HeinleinTag: 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.
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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: self-esteem
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. HeinleinTheology 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. HeinleinTag: theology theologians theism
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: defiance hopelessness lost-causes
He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
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