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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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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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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Your nature is the Buddha.
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I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
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Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
