The Lighthouse Keeper Quotes

“And yet, I was bound by an oath of loyalty which was impossible to deny or ignore.”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

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― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“I can accept the idea of a First Cause, a supremely powerful entity with the ability to create space, time and matter – to create universes. But what I can’t accept is that human religion has come anywhere near describing or understanding it, or ever could.”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“for in those terrible moments it occurred to me that strangeness could reach an intensity that was lethal to the human mind,”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“Our science and our cities are manacles on the feet of Nature; we bind it to our will, and most of us have forgotten what it was like when we lay naked and defenceless in its hands.”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“I believe that God created the Universe, but He designed it to follow the immutable laws that He also created. Those laws cannot be broken, but God gave humanity the faculties of reason and logic to understand them, and to apply that understanding in order to solve the mysteries of creation.”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“I felt as if I were trapped between two worlds: that of misty legend and that of the scientific intellect of modern man. I felt lost in a limbo between the spirit and the machine, besieged by both, and truly understanding neither.”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“John, I’m only an Occasional, and I wouldn’t presume to tell you your job, or how to behave, or what to think. But we cannot be ruled by our imaginations, not here, and not now. The imagination is what separates us from the animals, but sometimes… well, sometimes it is not our friend. Sometimes it betrays us and leads us towards superstition and senseless fear…”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“It was clear that these men entertained the same misgivings about me as John Milne, and I was at a loss to explain what they were. Was it just unfamiliarity, combined with the natural taciturnity of seamen?”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“But the ages of man are but the ages of the world writ small, and just as the land is gradually transformed by the wind and the rain, the warmth of the summer and the cold of winter’s chiselling frosts, by the breathing seasons of the world, so are we constantly altered and shaped by the experiences of our lives, which can mould us gently like the skilful hands of a potter, or beat our minds into new forms like white-hot metal upon a blacksmith’s anvil.”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“The imagination is what separates us from the animals, but sometimes… well, sometimes it is not our friend. Sometimes it betrays us and leads us towards superstition and senseless fear…”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper

“Do you really know what Nature is? Are you really so familiar with all of the parts that make up the whole of the world? Can there be such a thing as the “supernatural”… or are such things simply parts of Nature which we don’t understand?”
― Alan K. Baker, The Lighthouse Keeper