Beauty Quote by 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 which we make aesthetic distinctions between ugly and beautiful.””

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“In the Old Testament, guilt enters the world by way of a bite from a fruit.”

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

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