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title: "2 Alphabet Quotes By Leonard Shlain"
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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/the-first-book-ever-written-in-an-alphabet-was-the-hebrew-bible-or/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/806/leonard-shlain-31041_alphabet_the-first-book-ever-written-in-an-alphab_1328171.png)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/i-suggest-that-a-culture-adopting-an-alphabet-would-denigrate-right/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

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## More by Leonard Shlain

> [Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/revolutionary-art-and-visionary-physics-are-both-investigations-into/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

> [While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/while-their-methods-differ-radically-artists-and-physicists-share-the/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

> [Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the Greeks…time meandered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/admixing-the-inner-space-of-dream-trance-and-myth-with-the-events-of/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/edited-by-mostly-unknown-scholars-in-a-d-367-compiled-from-documents/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/when-you-read-a-book-you-generate-beta-waves-irrespective-of-the-book/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/democrtitus-in-the-fifth-century-b-c-had-declared-that-all-the-world/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/the-first-book-ever-written-in-an-alphabet-was-the-hebrew-bible-or/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

> [“In the Old Testament, guilt enters the world by way of a bite from a fruit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/in-the-old-testament-guilt-enters-the-world-by-way-of-a-bite-from-a/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

> [“The right brain is better than the left in perceiving space and making judgments as to balance, harmony, and the composition of gestalts, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/the-right-brain-is-better-than-the-left-in-perceiving-space-and/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

> [I suggest that a culture adopting an alphabet would denigrate right hemispheric values because the alphabet is a left hemispheric mode of reception. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/i-suggest-that-a-culture-adopting-an-alphabet-would-denigrate-right/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

> [Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/language-was-such-a-profoundly-new-evolutionary-innovation-that-our/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

> [Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/revolutionary-art-anticipates-visionary-physics-when-the-vision-of/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/we-re-witnessing-the-end-of-a-5-000-year-reign-of-patriarchy-and-are/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/images-are-so-prevalent-that-we-get-most-of-our-information-from-them/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-shlain/when-the-time-comes-to-change-a-paradigm-to-renounce-one-bedrock/)

[Leonard Shlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-shlain/)

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