9 quotes
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
I've never understood how God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion by faith — it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
"Do you know who is responsible?" "Why of course, it's the government!" "Jill, 'the government' is several million people."
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe — in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1960)
Jealousy is a disease; love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
There was so much to grok, so little to grok from.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
Women should be obscene but not heard.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)
Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed — to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science — and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)