"Some make light of decisions, arguing that all……" — Alan Lightman
"Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? 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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Alan Lightman
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65 Quotes by Alan Lightman
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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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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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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