What did Robert A. Heinlein mean by: Specialization is for insects… The race of man? He’s a whole other creature. Robert A. Heinlein Science fiction author · USA Copy
+ Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein, Strength, Training, Unity, 0 Robert A. Heinlein Science fiction author · USA
+ How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein, Behavior, Cats, Heaven, 0 Robert A. Heinlein Science fiction author · USA
+ Butterflies are not insects,’ Captain John Sterling said soberly. ‘They are self-propelled flowers. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein, Illusion, Nature, Perception, 0 Robert A. Heinlein Science fiction author · USA
+ Only a sadistic scoundrel-or a fool-tells the bald truth on social occasions. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein, Deception, Honesty, Social Norms, 0 Robert A. Heinlein Science fiction author · USA
+ You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein, Death, Freedom, Power, 0 Robert A. Heinlein Science fiction author · USA
+ Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance — Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein, Altruism, Generosity, Nature, 0 Robert A. Heinlein Science fiction author · USA
+ A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein, Collaboration, Dysfunction, Inefficiency, 0 Robert A. Heinlein Science fiction author · USA
+ Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Author, January 29, 2023December 25, 2024, Robert A. Heinlein, Empathy, Happiness, Interdependence, 0 Robert A. Heinlein Science fiction author · USA
People always underestimate the ability of earth to increase its carrying capacity. Read explanation Charlie Munger Business person
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. Franz Werfel Novelist · Austria
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Friedrich Schiller Playwright · Germany