Robert A. Heinlein on Mind
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #220227: "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
Attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, entry #146342: "At that point I realized that I had been thinking in Russian. It’s a wonderful language for paranoid thoughts."
6 Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein on Mind
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
"At that point I realized that I had been thinking in Russian. It’s a wonderful language for paranoid thoughts."
"How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?"
"A military hierarchy automatically places a premium on conservative behavior and dull conformance with precedent; it tends to penalize original and imaginative thinking."
"He thought of a way to state it: Ego is the point of consciousness, the latest term in a continuously expanding series along the line of memory duration. That sounded like a general statement, but he was not sure; he would have to try to formulate it mathematically before he could trust it. Verbal language had such queer booby traps in it."
"“The trouble with you youngsters,” Joe said, “is that if you can’t understand a thing right off, you think it can’t be true. The trouble with your elders is, anything they didn’t understand they reinterpreted to mean something else and then thought they understood it. None of you has tried believing clear words the way they were written and then tried to understand them on that basis. Oh, no, you’re all too bloody smart for that—if you can’t see it right off, it ain’t so—it must mean something different."