A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
ALAN LIGHTMANA world with one month is a world of equality.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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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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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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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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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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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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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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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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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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