Robert Anson Heinlein Zitate

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„Glück besteht darin, genügend Schlaf zu bekommen. Nur das, nichts mehr.“

„Es gibt keine schlimmere Tyrannei, als jemanden zu zwingen, für etwas zu zahlen, das er nicht will, nur weil ihr glaubt, dass es gut für ihn wäre.“

„Frauen und Katzen werden tun, was sie wollen, und Männer und Hunde sollten sich entspannen und sich an die Idee gewöhnen.“

„Liebe ist der Zustand, in dem das Glück eines anderen Menschen für den eigenen wesentlich ist.“

„Handicapen Sie Ihre Kinder nicht, indem Sie ihnen das Leben leicht machen.“

„Eine Generation, die die Geschichte ignoriert, hat keine Vergangenheit - und keine Zukunft.“

„Hüte dich vor Selbstlosigkeit! Sie basiert auf Selbsttäuschung, der Quelle allen Übels.“

„Cheops' Gesetz: Nichts wird pünktlich oder ohne Erweiterung des Budgets fertig.“

„Ein Prüfstein zum Herausfinden des wirklichen Werts eines »Intellektuellen«: Finde heraus, was er von Astrologie hält.“

„Klima erwartet man, Wetter bekommt man.“

„Eine prüde Person ist eine Person, die denkt, dass ihre eigenen Anstandsregeln Naturgesetze sind.“

„Unterschätze niemals die Macht der menschlichen Dummheit.“

„Man kann Frieden haben. Oder man kann Freiheit haben. Rechne niemals damit, beide gleichzeitig zu haben.“

„Sünde liegt nur darin, andere Menschen unnötig zu verletzen. Alle anderen "Sünden" sind erfundener Blödsinn. (Sich selbst zu verletzen ist keine Sünde -- nur dumm.)“

“Why do you like to play chess so well?”

“Rotation through a fourth dimension can’t affect a three-dimensional figure any more than you can shake letters off a printed page.”

“Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.”

“What course of action do you favor?”

“You have to believe evidence when you have it in front of you, or else the universe is just too fantastic.”

“Attend me. How do you prove that there are eggs in a bird’s nest? Don’t strain your gray matter: go climb the tree and find out. There is no other way.”

“Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”

“I decided not to cross any bridges I had burned behind me.”

“Parents probably don’t know that they are playing favorites even when they are doing it.”

“I was confused. I didn’t feel telepathic; I merely felt hungry.”

“I used to wonder what it was like to be rich. Now I am and it turns out to be mostly headaches.”

“Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.”

“Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover.”

“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”

“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”

“But I do not willingly involve us in nationalistic wars; the side of the angels is seldom self-evident.”

“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”

“Old age is not an accomplishment; it is just something that happens to you despite yourself, like falling downstairs.”

“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”

“I had learned lately that wanting something and being able to pay for it were not the same.”

“I suspect that there are just two sorts of lawyers: those who spend their efforts making life easy for other people—and parasites.”

“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”

“No one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.”

“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”

“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”

“Anything that is moral for a group to do is moral for one person to do.”

“The tragedy about Romeo and Juliet is not that they died so young but that the boy-meets-girl reflex should be so overpowering as to defeat all common sense.”

“It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.”

“I really am a good listener because you never can tell when you will pick up something useful—and all in the world any woman has to do to be considered “charming” by men is to listen while they talk.”