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Music is ... a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.
— Oliver Sacks
Luria's Mind of a Mnemonist.
— Oliver Sacks
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
— Jonathan Sacks
I often dream ... of my parents and of my former patients - all long gone but loved and important in my life.
— Oliver Sacks
Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.
— Oliver Sacks
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
— Oliver Sacks
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.
— Jonathan Sacks
When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.
— Jonathan Sacks
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
— Jonathan Sacks
In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.
— Jonathan Sacks
In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.
— Oliver Sacks
This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world.
— Oliver Sacks
I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.
— Oliver Sacks
Dangerously well' - what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling 'too well
— Oliver Sacks
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
— Oliver Sacks
Everybody uses everybody until we're all just a bunch of used up shit sacks waiting to go to dirt.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
— Jonathan Sacks
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
— Jonathan Sacks
It also gave me a feeling of vulnerability and mortality which I had not really had before. In
— Oliver Sacks
Experience and experiment are crucially important here - neural Darwinism is essentially experiential selection. The
— Oliver Sacks
After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.
— Jonathan Sacks
What they are able to imagine becomes more real to them.
— Oliver Sacks
Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement
— Oliver Sacks
All the trouble starts when people forget they're human.
— Oliver Sacks
