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World Quotes by Alan Lightman
- Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no…
- In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a…
- In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without…
- In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without…
- In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers…
- 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…
- I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I…
- Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
- A world with one month is a world of equality.
- The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
- The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
- If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
- The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world…
- A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is…
- In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal,…
- Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
- Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have…
- It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that…
- 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…
- 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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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani