I should have written books instead of reading them.
ALAN LIGHTMANMusic is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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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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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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