Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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