Robert A. Heinlein Quotes on Psychology
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Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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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.
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
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If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.
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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
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Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
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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.