Leonard Shlain Quotes
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
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Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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You can't create a new reality with the same personality.
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People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.
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I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.
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I have a really, really great girl in my life right now.
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My husband and I have a deal, which has worked out well: He cooks one Sunday, I cook the next. The kids set the table, and we eat in the dining room together, just as I used to do as a kid.
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
