Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
ALAN LIGHTMANOne metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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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 many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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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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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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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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