Leonard Shlain Quotes

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

Leonard Shlain

#2. I have observed that money left without special guidance is sometimes used well and sometimes not.

David Packard

#3. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Dave Eggers

#4. 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

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

Leonard Shlain

#6. She was the one hallucinating now. She took a stumbling, uncertain step forward. Wanting to run toward him, but terrified it was a trick.

Marissa Meyer

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.

Jonathan Kozol

#10. I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.

Roxy Writer

#11. our value/belief system acts as a
conditioning factor for our thinking pattern.

Derric Yuh Ndim

#12. 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

#13. Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

Leonard Shlain

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

George Whitefield

#17. The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

Freeman Dyson

#18. 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

#19. It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

Nolan Sotillo

#20. I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

Daphne Du Maurier

#21. Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

Paul Celan