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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
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
— John Lubbock
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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
It feels good to get sacks and to know I can do it.
— Jason Pierre-Paul
There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.
— Jonathan 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
The universe is more than mere matter in motion. It and we were brought into being by a Creator who seeks our good.
— Jonathan Sacks
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
— Jonathan Sacks
Music can also evoke worlds very different from the personal, remembered worlds of events, people, places we have known.
— Oliver Sacks
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
— Jonathan Sacks
Einstein said it most famously: 'Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.'1
— Jonathan Sacks
The alphabet was an invention below stairs.
— David Sacks
Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.
— Jonathan Sacks
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
— Jonathan Sacks
She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening.
— Oliver Sacks
Henry VIII in full armor, it was said, weighed 500 pounds.
— Oliver Sacks
Freedom ... leads those who have more than they need to share with those who have less
— Jonathan Sacks
For each of us there is a Jordan we will not cross. Once
— Jonathan Sacks
Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.
— Diane Ackerman
During the season ... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.
— Clay Matthews III
He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment.
— Oliver Sacks
What they are able to imagine becomes more real to them.
— Oliver Sacks
Don't they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?' 'Odalisques, sir, I understand. Not aunts.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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
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
All the trouble starts when people forget they're human.
— Oliver Sacks
When human beings try to become more than human, they quickly become less than human.
— Jonathan Sacks
I did not seem to have any special project to animate me.
— 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
The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.
— Jonathan Sacks
Part of success is just starting something, working toward a goal, and then living long enough to achieve it.
— Mike Sacks
Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.
— Jonathan Sacks
I am very bad at factual exams, yes-or-no questions, but can spread my wings with essays.
— 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
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
— Jonathan Sacks
As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
— Jonathan Sacks
Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement
— Oliver Sacks
An alcoholic has a personality change after a drink or two, but a drunk can drink as much as he wants. I'm a drunk.
— Oliver Sacks
When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.
— Jonathan Sacks
Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
— Jonathan Sacks
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
— Jonathan Sacks
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
— Jonathan Sacks
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
— Jonathan Sacks
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
Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.
— Jonathan 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
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
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
Everybody uses everybody until we're all just a bunch of used up shit sacks waiting to go to dirt.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
Defining yourself as a victim is ultimately a diminution of what makes us human. It teaches us to see ourselves as objects, not subjects.
— Jonathan Sacks
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
— Oliver Sacks
Experience and experiment are crucially important here - neural Darwinism is essentially experiential selection. The
— Oliver Sacks
Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.
— Lauren Groff
Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
— Jonathan Sacks
It also gave me a feeling of vulnerability and mortality which I had not really had before. In
— Oliver Sacks
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.
— Oliver Sacks
The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.
— Oliver Sacks
The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
— Jonathan Sacks
Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else.
— Jonathan Sacks
Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin
— Jonathan Sacks
With wealth comes responsibility.
— Jonathan 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
The supreme religious challenge is to see God's image in one who is not in our image.
— Jonathan Sacks
Sudden fright, or rage, or other strong emotion may disperse and displace a migraine almost within seconds. One
— Oliver Sacks
