But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
ALAN LIGHTMANA 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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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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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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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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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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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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Continents of memory had been lost.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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