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Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
— Oliver Sacks
But after my fall and my near death, fear and caution
— Oliver Sacks
Empirical science, empiricism, takes no account of the soul, no account of what constitutes and determines personal being.
— Oliver Sacks
Music is part of being human.
— Oliver Sacks
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.
— Oliver Sacks
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[photography] ... wanted to understand, to master for myself, all the processes involved, and to manipulate them in my own way.
— Oliver Sacks
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
I was half-afraid that I would do something awful, like faint or fart right in front of the queen, but all went well.
— Oliver Sacks
For there is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation.
— Oliver Sacks
Music can also evoke worlds very different from the personal, remembered worlds of events, people, places we have known.
— Oliver Sacks
Pride and a Daily Marathon,
— Oliver Sacks
We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.
— Oliver Sacks
The Allegory of the Wolf Boy" ("At tennis and at tea/Upon the gentle lawn, he is not ours,/But plays us in a sad duplicity").
— Oliver Sacks
As for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it?' - and
— Oliver Sacks
When the attack is "due" (or a little overdue), it will occur, explosively, whether or not there is any provocation.
— Oliver Sacks
It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
— Oliver Sacks
In his autobiography, What Mad Pursuit, he speaks of the difference between physics and biology:
— Oliver Sacks
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
— Oliver Sacks
Culture is as crucial as Nature.
— Oliver Sacks
I often dream ... of my parents and of my former patients - all long gone but loved and important in my life.
— Oliver Sacks
The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace— Oliver Sacks
He wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.
— Oliver Sacks
I feel glad to be alive - "I'm glad I'm not dead!" sometimes bursts out of me when the weather is perfect.
— Oliver Sacks
We think of science as discovery, art as invention, but is there a "third world" of mathematics, which is somehow, mysteriously, both?
— Oliver Sacks
Each of us, I had written, constructs and lives a "narrative" and is defined by this narrative.
— Oliver Sacks
My pre-med studies in anatomy and physiology at Oxford had not prepared me in the least for real medicine.
— Oliver Sacks
He was not imitating me; he had become me, in a sense; it was like suddenly acquiring a younger twin.
— Oliver Sacks
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
— Oliver Sacks
(One newsmagazine, in 1987, defined them, half facetiously, as "cognitively infectious musical agents.")
— Oliver Sacks
There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.
— Oliver Sacks
I am haunted by the density of reality
— Oliver Sacks
I am very bad at factual exams, yes-or-no questions, but can spread my wings with essays.
— 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
And one day the mind leaps from imagination to hallucination, and the congregant hears God, sees God.
— Oliver Sacks
Parked the bike in a side road - and fainted. The second accident occurred at night in heavy
— Oliver Sacks
Sudden fright, or rage, or other strong emotion may disperse and displace a migraine almost within seconds. One
— Oliver Sacks
There is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation. - OLIVER SACKS
— Maia Szalavitz
The power of music to integrate and cure ... is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
— Oliver Sacks
Having ferned for an hour, we take a break for our lunch and I eat, unwisely, quite an enormous meal ...
— 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
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
The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.
— 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
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
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
She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening.
— Oliver Sacks
many cardinal characteristics of migraine aura, in its visual (scotomatous), tactile (paraesthetic) and aphasic forms. We
— Oliver Sacks
I cannot pretend i am not without fear ...
— Oliver Sacks
This state is thus one of an excruciating overall sensitivity, patients being assaulted by sensory stimuli from their environment, or
— Oliver Sacks
I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.
— Oliver Sacks
Henry VIII in full armor, it was said, weighed 500 pounds.
— Oliver Sacks
He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment.
— Oliver Sacks
I did not seem to have any special project to animate me.
— Oliver Sacks
Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.
— Oliver Sacks
My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
— Oliver Sacks
