How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
Robert A. HeinleinAn armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. HeinleinAlmost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: power religion danger law sect organized-religion separation-of-church-and-state cult
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: society dissent censorship trouble suppression
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Robert A. HeinleinDelusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.
Robert A. HeinleinAnyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: wisdom
Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
Robert A. HeinleinThe supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: humour
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: wisdom life art youth old
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