Shlain Leonard Quotes & Sayings

I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women. — Leonard Shlain

Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the myriad of forms to only two was the ultimate in dualistic reasoning. Christianity adopted dualism when it created the strict division between good and evil and heaven and hell. — Leonard Shlain

The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art. — Leonard Shlain

If Jesus returned their looks, these angry men would not see his look as it really is but would transform it into a mirror of their own anger. Their own challenge, their own provocation, is what they would read in the look of Jesus, no matter how peaceable it really is, and they would feel provoked in return. The confrontation could no longer be avoided and would bring about what Jesus is trying to prevent, the stoning of the victim. Jesus avoids thus even the shadow of provocation. When — Rene Girard

As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world. — Candace Bushnell

When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture? — Leonard Shlain

Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave them video games and asked them to figure out how to play them without instructions. Then they watched their brain activity with real-time monitors. At first, when they were figuring out the games, he said, the whole brain lit up. But by the time they knew how to play the games, the brain went dark, except for one little point. — Roger Ebert

Love comes again
Just when I've broken down I found
Love can come again
You've got to believe that. — Tiesto

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it. — Norman Davies

This idea was first coined by Charles Handy in his book The Age of Unreason — Jeff Goins

When you answer them, you try to put meaning in every word. That's why ... their many lies cut you. — Otsuichi

No, Simi. No food. (Acheron)
No, Simi. No food. The Simi don't like this, akri. Katoteros is boring. There's nothing fun there. Only old dead people who want to come back here. Bleh! (Simi)
Simi ... (Acheron)
I hear and obey, akri. The Simi just never said she would do so quietly. (Simi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When the time comes to change a paradigm
to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another
the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront. — Leonard Shlain

We're witnessing the end of a 5,000 year reign of patriarchy, and are coming into a society created by our technology that will be more balanced and more feminine. It's already happening. And I think that the good news is that it's coming just in time. — Leonard Shlain

When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again. — Auliq Ice

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet. — Leonard Shlain

Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society. — Leonard Shlain

I ... had my mind blown by all the opportunities that were in California in the '60s and '70s. In Detroit, everything was Freud ... Out here, everything was Jung. — Leonard Shlain

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns ... I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer. — Leonard Shlain

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. — Leonard Shlain

A medium of communication is not merely a passive conduit for the transmission of information but rather an active force in creating new social patterns and new perceptual realities. — Leonard Shlain

One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. — Robert Kiyosaki

Is the man who trusts in man And makes hflesh his 2strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD. 6For he shall be ilike a shrub in the desert, And jshall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, kIn a salt land which is not inhabited. — Richard Blackaby

Everything is known through its opposite. — Dane Rudhyar

I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And this right hemispheric denigration would manifest in two principal ways: Women's rights would be taken away, and images would be declared abominations. — Leonard Shlain

We must be on guard against the ingratitude and hypocrisy of our own hearts, or we will prove ourselves to lack genuine persevering faith. Let us examine ourselves and seek to follow the Lord in truth. — Anonymous

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it. — Leonard Shlain

Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was present at the events, and composed for the most part by unknown authors in the Greek language that Jesus never spoke, it is held up as the only true record of the Christ story. — Leonard Shlain

It bugged me that the cover bedding was seldom washed, like slapping on a set of sheets made up for a bedspread that contained more germs per inch than the inside of a frat boy's toilet. — Cheryl Bradshaw

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament. — Leonard Shlain