L. Ron Hubbard Quotes

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

Well I don’t know that I’m okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one – I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

The best way to know any future is to cause one.

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one’s knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!

If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn’t know what it’s trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

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

You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

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

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

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.

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

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

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.

Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap.

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

The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

The test of true competence is the end result.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

You don’t have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.

Think your own way through things, accept what is true for you, discard the rest.

A man is as alive as he can communicate.

When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young – 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don’t make nothin’.

A suppressing person isn’t critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

Are you making life or is life making you?

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

Living is having and following a purpose. That’s all. That’s the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That’s it. If you do it, you’re living and if you don’t do it, you’re not living.
And that’s all there is to it. I’ve now given you the basic fundamental of existence and that really is it.

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

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.

See what you see, not what someone tells you that you see

Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.