Most people have learned to live in the moment.
ALAN LIGHTMANWriters read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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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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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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