8 Robert A. Heinlein Quotes on Psychology

Robert A. Heinlein quotes on psychology

9. Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

45. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

74. Delusions 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.

91. If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

94. If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.

104. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

109. Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

164. All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.