Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
ALAN LIGHTMANOr perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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