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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
The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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
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
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
Music is ... a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.
— Oliver Sacks
For there is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation.
— 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
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 people of Israel are entitled, as is any other nation, to live in peace and safety.
— Jonathan Sacks
In his autobiography, What Mad Pursuit, he speaks of the difference between physics and biology:
— Oliver Sacks
The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.
— Jonathan Sacks
Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For
— Jonathan Sacks
many cardinal characteristics of migraine aura, in its visual (scotomatous), tactile (paraesthetic) and aphasic forms. We
— Oliver Sacks
God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.
— 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
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
Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
— Walter Wriston
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
— Jonathan Sacks
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
— Jonathan Sacks
Each of us, I had written, constructs and lives a "narrative" and is defined by this narrative.
— Oliver Sacks
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
— Jonathan Sacks
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
— Oliver Sacks
A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.
— Jonathan Sacks
My pre-med studies in anatomy and physiology at Oxford had not prepared me in the least for real medicine.
— Oliver Sacks
As for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it?' - and
— 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 the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
— Jonathan Sacks
When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.
— Jonathan 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
Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
— 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
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
And one day the mind leaps from imagination to hallucination, and the congregant hears God, sees God.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else.
— Jonathan Sacks
The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.
— Oliver Sacks
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.
— Oliver Sacks
Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.
— Jonathan 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
My religion is nature. That's what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
— Oliver Sacks
Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.
— Oliver Sacks
She now receives love, attention, and invisible presents from a hallucinatory gentleman who visits faithfully each evening.
— Oliver Sacks
