L. Ron Hubbard Quotes & Sayings

Man is an endangered species. — L. Ron Hubbard

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view. — L. Ron Hubbard

You make New Year's resolutions. And you make them into the teeth of old resolutions which were different. Then you don't keep your new resolutions and you tell yourself you are weak-willed. You aren't weak-willed, you are simply obeying yourself as of yesterday. — L. Ron Hubbard

The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in
striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods. — L. Ron Hubbard

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent. — L. Ron Hubbard

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion! — L. Ron Hubbard

Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data. — L. Ron Hubbard

We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and in Scientology. — L. Ron Hubbard

Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization. — L. Ron Hubbard

The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages. — L. Ron Hubbard

Advanced Courses [in Scientology] are the most valuable service on the planet. Life insurance, houses, cars, stocks, bonds, college savings, all are transitory and impermanent ... There is nothing to compare with Advanced Courses. They are infinitely valuable and transcend time itself. — L. Ron Hubbard

There are vistas never dreamed of, there are joys never even known, there are glories no past glory ever surpassed. These wait for you but only if you accept my legacy and help bring these things about. — L. Ron Hubbard

A man is known by the company who he keeps — L. Ron Hubbard

Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message. — L. Ron Hubbard

When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood. — L. Ron Hubbard

Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily. — L. Ron Hubbard

See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see — L. Ron Hubbard

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers. — L. Ron Hubbard

The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals. — L. Ron Hubbard

It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality. — L. Ron Hubbard

When this government [Chiang Kaishek's] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life. — L. Ron Hubbard

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything. — L. Ron Hubbard

Tolerance is a good cornerstone on which to build human relationships. — L. Ron Hubbard

Of all the ills of man which can be successfully processed by Scientology, arthritis ranks near the top. In skilled hands, this ailment, though misunderstood and dreaded in the past, already has begun to become history. Twenty-five hours of Scientology by an auditor who fairly understands how to process arthritis can be said to produce an invariable alleviation of the condition. Some cases, even severe ones, have responded in as little as two hours of processing, according to reports from auditors in the field. — L. Ron Hubbard

His valet! In the rush of getting him off, his clumsy damned valet had put the wrong boots on him. Oh, when he got home ... when he got home he would have the oaf punctured! Worse. Dragged through the streets and bitten to death by small children. — L. Ron Hubbard

There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden. — L. Ron Hubbard

The best way to know any future is to cause one. — L. Ron Hubbard

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness. — L. Ron Hubbard

Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer. — L. Ron Hubbard

Boldness in itself is genius. — L. Ron Hubbard

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something. — L. Ron Hubbard

What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things. — L. Ron Hubbard

Communication is the universal solvent. — L. Ron Hubbard

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone. — L. Ron Hubbard

One cannot be able in life by fearing to live. — L. Ron Hubbard

A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him. — L. Ron Hubbard

Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one. — L. Ron Hubbard

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal. — L. Ron Hubbard

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that? — L. Ron Hubbard

If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness. — L. Ron Hubbard

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used. — L. Ron Hubbard

Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people. — L. Ron Hubbard

The way out is the way through. — L. Ron Hubbard

You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle of Scientology: It is possible to know about the mind, the spirit and life. — L. Ron Hubbard

Theta clearing is about as practical and simple as repairing a shoe lace. It is nothing to do with hypnotism, voodooism, charalatanism, monkeyism or theosophy. Done, the thetan can do anything a stage magician can do in the way of moving objects around. But this isn't attained by holding one's breath or thinking right thoughts or voting Republican or any other superstitous or mystic practice. So for the reason I brought up, rule out, auditor, any mumbo jumbo or mysticism, spiritualism, or religion. — L. Ron Hubbard

Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same. — L. Ron Hubbard

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe. — L. Ron Hubbard

If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate [sic] or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who ... seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists. — L. Ron Hubbard

Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have found crimes for which that person or group could be imprisoned under existing law. We do not find critics of Scientology who do not have criminal pasts. — L. Ron Hubbard

Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out. — L. Ron Hubbard

Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel. — L. Ron Hubbard

You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta. — L. Ron Hubbard

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives. — L. Ron Hubbard

There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are. — L. Ron Hubbard

The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest. — L. Ron Hubbard

As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it. — L. Ron Hubbard

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it. — L. Ron Hubbard

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road. — L. Ron Hubbard

The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard. — L. Ron Hubbard

When we need somebody haunted we investigate ... When we investigate we do so noisily always. — L. Ron Hubbard

The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees. — L. Ron Hubbard

Life in its highest state is understanding. — L. Ron Hubbard

If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace. — L. Ron Hubbard

The DEFENSE of anything is UNTENABLE. The only way to defend anything is to ATTACK, and if you ever forget that, then you will lose every battle you are ever engaged in, whether it is in terms of personal conversation, public debate, or a court of law. NEVER BE INTERESTED IN CHARGES. DO, yourself, much MORE CHARGING, and you will WIN. — L. Ron Hubbard

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys. — L. Ron Hubbard

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors. — L. Ron Hubbard

Scientology is a power-and-money-and-intelligence-gathering game. — L. Ron Hubbard

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate. — L. Ron Hubbard

All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use. — L. Ron Hubbard

One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time. — L. Ron Hubbard

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling ... it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health ... — L. Ron Hubbard

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing. — L. Ron Hubbard

There is no madder nation than Japan ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country. — L. Ron Hubbard

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization. — L. Ron Hubbard

In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints. — L. Ron Hubbard

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it. — L. Ron Hubbard

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation. — L. Ron Hubbard

Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do. — L. Ron Hubbard

A workman is not just a workman.
A laborer is not just a laborer.
An office worker is not just an office worker.
They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine.
They are the machine itself. — L. Ron Hubbard

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world — L. Ron Hubbard

If at this moment you simply made up your minds that you were handsome, beautiful, strong, dangerous, powerful, that you knew everything there was to know, you were totally capable in any job that you undertook or any sport you undertook-if you really believed that, and you can believe it, some of your faces would change physically before my eyes. — L. Ron Hubbard

I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others. — L. Ron Hubbard

A culture is as rich and capable of surviving
as it has imaginative artists. — L. Ron Hubbard

An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas. — L. Ron Hubbard

It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission. — L. Ron Hubbard

It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth. — L. Ron Hubbard

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman. — L. Ron Hubbard

That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.
That to which he devotes energy, he finally has. — L. Ron Hubbard

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others. — L. Ron Hubbard

Moses and the crooked snake ... that turned into a stuck, that was actually a disintegrator pistol. — L. Ron Hubbard

Carnsarn ye for a pair of busted-down, walleyed, spavined ignorantipedes! Gettin' so a man can't even git ten winks on his own chuck wagon without you buzzard baits clownin' up! — L. Ron Hubbard

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. — L. Ron Hubbard

To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect government out here which required the intervention of nobody, you would have destroyed the society. But by raising the individual ability of the persons in the society within the framework that they are able to view, raise their ability within the framework they are able to view, you would have achieved a marked advance for that society. — L. Ron Hubbard

Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law. — L. Ron Hubbard

You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks. — L. Ron Hubbard

Always maintain good relations with your public. — L. Ron Hubbard

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it. — L. Ron Hubbard

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. — L. Ron Hubbard

A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped. — L. Ron Hubbard

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are. — L. Ron Hubbard